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.

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