Sophia Vald was in the Kovno Ghetto from June 1941 to spring of 1944. At almost 6 years old, Vald's parents arranged for her to be smuggled out of the Slabodka ghetto in Kovno through a fence and hidden by a Lithuanian-Polish woman, Danuta Yadwiga. She was taken to her farm house, hidden in a barn and given food when possible. She was told not to make a sound. Later on, Yadwiga told Vald that she cried everyday. Vald was hidden from Spring, 1944 to August 1944. Vald was found by her father's brothers, one who lived in Riga and the other in Vilna. Vald visited Yadwiga the last time in 1954 when Vald was 16 and Yadwiga died in 1958. Vald emigrated to the United States in 1974 and now lives in Dearborn Heights.