Sabina Wolanski, born on June 8, 1927 in Borysław, daughter of Fischel Haberman and Sala nee Kulawicz, sister of Josek (born 1924), mother of Phillip and Josephine.

Before the war, she lived in Borysław, where she was studying at the local school. During World War II, she stayed in and around her hometown. At the beginning of the war, Borysław was under Soviet occupation and in the years 1941 - 1944 under the German occupation. In August 1942, Sabina and her mother were taken from their hiding place and locked in the "Grażyna" cinema. At that time, this place was a concentration point for the Jewish population, before deportation to the death camp in Bełżec. Despite objections, the girl was separated from her mother and taken to sort items confiscated from deported Jews. Josek was a witness of his mother's deportation, and after being captured, he was taken to the railway station. In the end, the boy was selected for work and, he stayed with his father in a labor camp. They were both murdered in April 1944. Shortly after the end of the war, Sabina had their bodies exhumed and buried at the local Jewish cemetery. The teenage girl survived till liberation in several places: at her cousin's Ukrainian "wet nurse" in a bunker near one of the houses in Borysław, in a labor camp, and in a forest. After the war, she moved to Lower Silesia, and in 1948, she left Poland with her husband. She stayed in Paris for two years, and then in 1950, she left for Australia, where she gave birth to two children and achieved professional success.
In May 2005, she gave a speech at the ceremony of the opening of the Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe. She died on June 23, 2011, in Sydney.

The story of Sabina Wolański's life is presented in a book published in English and German:
Sabina Wolanski, Diana Bagnall, Destined to Live: One Woman's War, Life, Loves Remembered, London, New York, Sydney, Auckland 2008.
Sabina van der Linden-Wolanski, Diana Bagnall, Drang nach Leben. Erinnerungen, Berlin 2010.

In addition, in 2011, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. produced a documentary about the story of Sabina Wolański, Australian Story - The Girl From Boryslaw.

More about Sabina's story you can read in the presentation below.