An Ohio housewife now in her early thirties, IRENE JERISON was born in Lodz, Poland, spent four years in the ghetto and six months in a German concentration camp before being liberated by the Russians in the spring of 1945. She finally left Roland with a group of refugee children and young people, came to the United States in 1947, attended the University of South Dakota, and received her M.A. from the University of Chicago.