Sabina Wolanski, married Sabina van der Linden-Wolanski (1927–2011) was a Holocaust survivor and author. Her book Destined to Live: One Woman's War, Life, Loves Remembered is a memoir of her account of her experience of the Holocaust.

Wolanski, born in Borysław

Boryslav

Boryslav is a city located on the Tysmenytsia River , in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. The city is designated as a separate raion within the oblast....

, Poland (today Ukraine), was 12 years old when her home town in Poland was invaded by the Nazis

Nazism

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

. In her diary she recorded what happened, including the humiliations and terrors, the murder of her family and her survival. Leaving Europe after the war, Wolanski began a new life in Australia. In 1967, she gave evidence in a trial of the man who had killed her father and brother in Bremen. While there, she met the daughter of a former Nazi who was researching her own past.

In May 2005, when Germany opened the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe , also known as the Holocaust Memorial , is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a...

in Berlin, Wolanski was chosen to speak on behalf of the six million dead. In her speech she noted that although the Holocaust had taken everything she valued, it had also taught her that hatred and discrimination are doomed to fail.

Wolanski died on 23 June 2011 in Sydney.