Janina Goldhar was an assistant professor at the Medical Academy in Warsaw, her husband was an electrician and worked in the Design Office in Warsaw. After the anti-Semitic campaign in 1968, they decided to leave for Israel, where the family of Janina Goldhar's husband lived. They had two daughters who were 16 and 14 years old in 1968. They left the Gdańsk railway station for Vienna, and took the plane to Israel. Her mother later joined them.
In Israel, Janina Goldhar worked as a researcher, taught at a university and was awarded the title of professor. Her husband also worked in his profession; the daughters founded families. She first came to Poland in 1983 with her mother for the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Round Table events found her at a scientific conference in Germany, from where she and her husband came to Poland. Janina Goldhar passed away in 2021 in Israel.