Gershon Ron was born on October 30, 1928 in Zdana, Czechoslovakia. He attended the local elementary school and continued his last four years in junior high school in Kassa. In 1943, he enrolled in a Teachers College in Budapest, Hungary. When the Germans occupied Budapest in 1944, Mr. Ron spent the following twelve months or more in concentration camps at Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Gunskirchen. From 1945 to 1948 he spent recovering from illnesses contracted in the camps, and going from one vocation to another.

Gershon Ron