[2] As a child, she survived the Second World War first in a sheltered house on Pozsonyi Street, Budapest, and then in the ghetto (November 1944 – January 1945).

Her classmates included Pál Gábor, Imre Gyöngyössy, Zoltán Huszárik, Ferenc Kardos, Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, János Rózsa, Éva Singer and István Szabó.

In the 1990s, she shot films with a Jewish theme like Tutajosok (Memories of a River, 1990) and To speak the Unspeakable: The Message of Elie Wiesel (1996).

[8] 69 scientists from the Jagiellonian University demanded that the authorities forbid Judit Elek entry to Poland.

Scientists wrote among others: "No director knowing her own worth would debase herself for using so primitive and cruel methods".