Judith Eva Barsi was the daughter of Jozsef Barsi and Maria Benko. Both of her parents were Hungarian immigrants. In 1983, when Judith was 5 years old, she was discovered at a skating rink in San Fernando Valley. Judith is best known for doing the voice of Ducky, in the children's movie, The Land Before Time. Her family was briefly put on welfare until her career started taking off. In 1985, Judith was making an estimated $100,000 a year. The income bought her family a four-bedroom house on a quiet street in West Hill. On July 25, 1988, in her home in Canoga Park, California, her mother and Judith were shot to death by Judith's father. He later shot himself to death. Jozsef was very abusive to Judith's mother, Maria and to Judith. He would usually come home drunk and threaten to kill them both.


Judith and her mother were laid to rest at Forest Lawn Cemetery on August 9, 1988 in Hollywood Hills. They were marked in unmarked graves. But, in June of 2004, a fund was set up to get them both headstones for their graves. On August 23, 2004, Judith's grave headstone was marked. Her plot is marked, "In memory of the lovely Judith Eva Barsi 1978-1988 'Our Concrete Angel' Yep! Yep! Yep!" Maria's was marked on January 28, 2005. Her marking is, "The wind beneath JEB's wings - Yep Yep Yep". JEB stands for Judith's initials.