Inside the Life of a Daughter
Born to Holocaust Survivors

Sabina Baral was born in postwar Wrocław (formerly Breslau), a city rebuilt from German ruins and resettled by Poles after World War II. The only child of Esther Goldman and Zygmunt Binder, quiet, hardworking Holocaust survivors, she grew up in a home shadowed by loss yet determined to rebuild a normal life.

In 1968, at the age of twenty, Baral was forced to leave Poland with her parents during the state-led campaign that drove thousands of Jews into exile. Their route led through Vienna and Rome before they eventually resettled in the United States, where she built a new life far from the streets of her childhood.

For many years, the pain of that rupture remained unspoken. Notes from Exile is the book Baral “wrote for myself, for you, and as a warning,” a deeply personal act of remembrance and a refusal to let her parents’ story, and the story of Polish Jews of 1968, be erased.

Upon arriving in America, she settled in Detroit and worked as a draftsman while her parents labored in a brush factory. Baral eventually resumed her studies at Wayne State University, balancing work and education to support her family. Her professional journey was marked by significant achievements in the burgeoning technology sector, where she became a gifted firmware programmer, writing code for early Intel microprocessors. She rose to executive roles, serving as Director of Marketing at Olivetti Corporation of America in New York and later as Director of Special Programs at a Silicon Valley start-up.

Transitioning from technology to design, she founded SABINA Marble & Granite, a company that became a leader in importing and designing architectural stone. Her work earned national recognition, including the prestigious Contractor of the Year (CotY) award, and her client list included iconic figures and brands such as Steve Jobs and Giorgio Armani.

Today, she remains a dedicated voice in the preservation of Jewish-Polish history, dividing her time between her home in California and the European cities that continue to shape her identity.