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Born in 1919 in the Polish town of Turek, Widawski grew up in a religious Jewish family before moving with his family to Łódź as a teenager. There, the family operated a textile business.
When Nazi Germany invaded Poland and the Jewish population of Łódź was forced into the ghetto, Widawski and members of his family were confined there together.
On August 29, 1944, the final transport from the Łódź Ghetto left for Auschwitz-Birkenau. Widawski’s parents, Abraham and Dobrish-Leah, were murdered there along with his older brother Gabriel. His brother Chaim Moshe was later murdered at Buchenwald, while his sister Yocheved was killed at Stutthof.
Only Yehuda and his brother Yehoshua survived the selection at Auschwitz.