Zelma Versano was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1933 to Solomon and Sarina Eliza. She was a pupil and child. Prior to WWII she lived in Sofia, Bulgaria. During the war she was in Razgrad, Bulgaria. Zelma survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.