Dora was born in 1905. Dora's father was Abram and her mother was Unnamed. Her paternal grandparents were Dawid and Frajda SZEPS. She had two brothers and four sisters, and also a sibling of unknown gender, named Mirl, Leib, Motek, Feia, Esta, Rachel and Sala. She was the fourth youngest of the eight children. She died at the age of 18 in 1923.