[2] In response to the creation of the Jewish Ghetto in the region, Diskin's parents made arrangements for their Catholic maid to take Vilunya to her village and raise her until the end of the war.

In 1947, they boarded a Swedish ship, The Gripsholm, which took them to New York where they were put up in an apartment by the HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society).

[3] During her studies, she met her husband, Martin Diskin, a descendant of Russian-immigrant Jews[3] who later joined the MIT faculty in the department of Anthropology in 1967.

[3] During Martin's time at MIT, they lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, then Lexington, and then spent several years doing anthropological field work in countries such as Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Colombia.

[3] On May 11, 1969, Vilunya and her good friend, Jane Pincus, attended a workshop at Emmanuel College called "Women and Their Bodies", which was at Boston's first Female Liberation Conference, led by Nancy Miriam Hawley.

[3] They called themselves the "Doctors Group" and developed a 12 session course on women's health which was held at MIT and later reworked into a 193 page booklet.

[3] Our Bodies, Ourselves has promoted "grassroots health activism" in the USA, as well as various countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe.