Malvina Kaplan
Israeli painter
Malvina Kaplan (Hebrew: מלבינה קפלן; 1913–1987), was an Israeli painter.
Life in Europe
Malvina Kaplan (née Kaminer) was born in Lodz, Poland into a religious family. Though her family was religious, they still supported her artistic endeavours. Thus, as a child, Kaplan was tutored in the home of a local Polish painter. Following her artistic passion, she enrolled in the year 1937 in the Warsaw Academy of Art; however, due to the circumstances surrounding the eruption of the Second World War, she was forced to leave her studies. In 1940, she married Moshe Kaplan. Both, due to their Judaism, were sent by Nazi Germany to the Czestochowa ghetto, from whence the pair managed to escape before the destruction and anhelation of the ghetto. The Kaplans left for Germany using counterfeit Polish identities. There, they were employed in factory work as well as agricultural work.
However, in 1944, Malvina's Jewish identity was revealed, and she was subsequently deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp before being transported to Ravensbruck and then to Malchow.
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