Ilka Gedő studied art privately. After the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, she was confined to one of the Budapest “Yellow-Star Houses”. In November 1944, she was incarcerated in the ghetto. After liberation, she studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, got married, had two sons, and continued her artistic career.
More on Ilka Gedo in the online exhibitions Last Portrait - Painting for Posterity and The Anguish of Liberation as Reflected in Art 1945-1947.