Godin stated that her life before the war was normal, remarking: "My family was very religious and observed all the Jewish laws.
I attended Hebrew school and was raised in a loving household where the values of community and caring were always stressed.
After the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, we heard from relatives in Łódź that Jews there were being treated horribly.
[citation needed]When asked why she did not pretend to be German, she recognized she could have, but her neighbor revealed her as a Jew.
[3] In 1950, after five years in a displaced person camp in Feldafing, Germany, Godin and her husband Jack (also a survivor), along with their two children, Pnina and Edward, moved to the United States and settled in Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
I think that I survived the Holocaust by the grace of the Lord above and by the kindness of Jewish women that gave me a bite of bread, wrapped my body in straw to keep me warm, held me up when I was hurt by the guards, gave me hope, but also asked me to promise them that if I survived I would not let them be forgotten.