The exhibition starts on Friday in the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery in Fremantle.
Luda says speaking to her 96-year-old father about his experiences first as a Soviet soldier fighting against the Germans, and later his plight in a German refugee camp, spurred her on.
She said he was in a small Russian tank, which was quickly destroyed, and eventually taken prisoner.
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"He tried to get back to his village and that is where he met my mother's family who took him in.
"It was the dreadfully cold Russian winter of 1943 and the Germans were evacuating and everyone just followed them."
Luda, who was born in a refugee camp, remembers her parents speaking about how lucky they were to get on a boat to Australia.
"There was so much suffering then so what I am doing is attempting to portray the historical plight of all refugees in visual forms," she said.
"My exhibition touches on the inhumanity of being a refugee, but we were lucky back then we were welcomed as refugees after World War II.
"Some refugees today are not so lucky."
The show uses words and pictures as well as paint.