Shirley is a Holocaust survivor. She was born in Kyvjazd, Czechoslovakia.

Taken from Variety article found here: "Len Weissman, a Hollywood publicist, photographer and advertising executive, died Saturday following a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease at his home in Honolulu. He was 83. In the 1930s and ’40s, Weissman and his brother Art (who died in 1995) were freelance fanzine photographers who covered such star nightclub hangouts as Ciro’s, the Mocambo, the Moulin Rouge and the Coconut Grove in pursuit of candid celebrity shots.