Gola was born to a Jewish family in [[Rzeszów|Rzeszow]], a town in the Galicia region of [[Poland]]. She attended Polish schools.<ref name=":0" />
Gola became active in Ha-Shomer ha-Za’ir as a teenager and was elected to a leadership role in the organization requiring her to move to Lvov. Gola stayed behind when her parents moved to Belgium in 1932.<ref name=":0" />
Gola was expelled forfrom Ha-Shomer ha-Za’ir in 1932 due to her standsupportive stance on the Soviet Union. She joiniedjoined the Communist Party in 1936 and organized a strike at the Kontakt factory, her place of employment. She was arrested for her role in the strike and served six months in prison. Upon her release, she organized Communist cells and activities in Przemysl for which she was arrested again and sentenced to twelve years in prison. She was transferred to Fordon Prison with fellow Communist prisoners. Guard at the prison fled at the Sotember 1, 1939 outbreak of World War II. Gola and fellow prisoners were able to escape before the Germans arrived.<ref name=":0" />
Prior to her imprisonment, Gola had begun a relationship with fellow Communist Olek Hausman. After escaping, Gola traveled to Warsaw looking for Olek, but discovered that he was in Bialystok. She located him there and together they went to Soviet-controlled Lvov where they were married.<ref name=":0" /> The Soviets appointed Gola as a member of city council and commissar. Olek left to join to Red Army when the Germans to Lvov in June of 1941. His fat eis unknown. Gola, who was pregnant, stayyed behind.
