Sabina van der Linden-Wolanski

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Sabina Wolanski (born June 8, 1927 in Borysław , Poland , † June 23, 2011 in Sydney , Australia ), third wife Sabina van der Linden-Wolanski , was a Polish-Australian survivor of the Holocaust .

Life

Sabina Haberman grew up in Borysław, Galicia , a center of oil production; today the area belongs to Ukraine . When the Second World War broke out , her hometown was occupied by Soviet troops due to the German-Soviet non-aggression pact . When Germany invaded the Soviet Union on July 1, 1941, the city was captured by German troops.

Sabina witnessed the humiliation, mistreatment and ultimately murder of the Jewish population. A labor camp was set up, and Sabina and her family had to live in the Borysław ghetto. The labor camp was run by an SS team under Obersturmführer Friedrich Hildebrand; until the camp was liquidated, Sabina's entire family was to be murdered.

In 1948 she married her second husband, Zdenek Wolanski, in Wałbrzych . In 1950 she emigrated to Australia via Paris, where she established herself as an independent entrepreneur.

In 1967 Sabina Wolanski testified in Bremen as a witness at the second trial against Friedrich Hildebrand, who was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In May 2005, Wolanski was the guest of honor and the main speaker at the inauguration of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin . She spoke “in the name of the victims, but also as the voice of the few who escaped annihilation”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabina van der Linden-Wolanski: Urge for life. Memories , Berlin 2010, p. 154.
  2. ^ The voice of the victims , in: FAZ of July 13, 2011, page 33.
personal data
SURNAME Linden-Wolanski, Sabina van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolanski, Sabina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-Australian survivors of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Borysław , Poland
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2011
Place of death Sydney , Australia