Gila Golan

Acting

Born: 1940-12-30 · Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland

Biography

Gila Golan (born 1940) is an Israeli former fashion model and actress. Born in Krakow, Poland, in 1940, she was adopted by a Roman Catholic family that found her left in a bundle at a train station during the Holocaust. Her adopted family sent her to be educated in a monastery. Arriving in Israel after World War II with the name Zusia Sobetzcki, she became Miriam Goldberg and continued her schooling in an Orthodox girls' boarding school. After becoming enamoured with fashion and undergoing pla