Dalia was born in KAunas. Her father,Michael Hofmekler, was a famous violinist and conductor. She was  jailed in the ghetto August 1941.Her father and his family survived because he conducted the ghetto orchestra Shortly before the children action she was smuggled out with the help of a nazi soldier.As the ghetto was destroyed,her grandfather was sent to Auschwitz her grandmother was murdered in the ghetto,her father was sent to the slave camp in Kaufering/ Dachau and her mother was jailed in Stutthof.