Yehuda Konopka was born in Woronowo, Poland. He was a cantor and ritual slaughterer and married to Rakhel. Prior to WWII he lived in Woronowo, Poland. During the war he was in Wilno, Poland. Yehuda 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.