Daisy Karasso lived with her parents Rahel and Abraham and her siblings Berta-Riri and Markos in the Greek city of Thessaloniki.
In April 1941 German troops invaded Thessaloniki and occupied the city. Daisy Karasso’s father, a Jewish communist, was arrested and murdered at the end of 1942, during German retaliation measures. Antisemitic persecution began in Thessaloniki in the spring of 1943. Jews were taken to ghettos in the city and later deported. Daisy Karasso’s brother joined the Greek People’s Liberation Army. With the help of Dimitrios Chalkidis, an acquaintance of her father’s, Daisy, Rahel, and Berta-Riri Karasso managed to escape from the ghetto. After several stops, they reached the small town of Nigrita, where the National Liberation Front EAM ran well-organized resistance campaigns. Daisy Karasso joined the EAM’s youth organization.
Daisy, Berta-Riri, and Rahel Karasso survived and returned to Thessaloniki after the war. Her brother Markos was killed during fighting in the summer of 1944. Daisy Karasso married the former partisan Isaak Moisis, with whom she emigrated to Israel in 1949.