Group portrait with Rosa Pliskin

Held by

Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)

Dates

1938 (indexed as 1938)

Level

item

Extent

Photograph : Paper : Printed : Ink : b&w ; Ht: 6 1/2 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.

Scope & content

White border. Formal group portrait, indoors. Nine people wearing black clothes, are sitting next to each other and looking at the camera. The older woman in the front row, on the right is Ester Klupt (née Cahnin). The third person from the right in second row is Rosa Pliskin-Sokolinski. The man in the middle is Mordechai Pliskin. Narrative: Rosa Pliskin-Sokolinski (nee Klupt) was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1898. She married Mordechai Pliskin before the war. They had at least 4 children. The family owned a store in Kovno, circa 1925, which remained open until 1941. The family sold manufactured materials for clothing. In 1941 or 1942, Rosa’s grandmother Esther Klupt (née Chanin) was shot in front of the family store with her great-grandson. Esther was 91 years old. Rosa and her relatives were sent to the ghetto. Rosa was then deported to the Stutthof concentration Camp, Poland. She arrived at the camp on July 13,1944. During her internment, Rosa Pliskin kept her clothes and accessories on her body at all times. She concealed two combs, a needle, some thread and fabric patches in a fabric pouch tied around her neck. Rosa considered these items to be very precious, she said they were "like gold to her". Her identification prisoner number at Stutthof camp was 42451. Rosa Pliskin died in 1986 in Tivon, Israel. Rosa’s husband, Mordechai Pliskin died in Dachau. Four of their children, David, Seil (Saul), Klara and one unknown perished in the Holocaust. David Pliskin, was murdered in the Ninth Forst, a Nazi killing site 4 miles from Kovno.

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