Group portrait of donor and friends on Ostrogorska Street, Sosnowiec.
Overview
- Caption
- Group portrait of donor and friends on Ostrogorska Street, Sosnowiec.
Pictured (left to right) are: Rutka Bachmajer; ?; Hala (Halinka) ? (top center); Rozia Zaks (donor); Hudzia Mangiel (bottom right). - Date
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1939
- Locale
- Sosnowiec, [Katowice; Zaglebie] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Sosnovets
Sosnowitz - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Rose Zaks Kaplovitz
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Rose Zaks Kaplovitz
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Rozia Kaplovitz (born Rozia Zaks) is the daughter of Mendel and Hindel Zaks. She was born September 6, 1930 in Sosnowiec, Poland, where her parents owned a grocery store. Rozia had six siblings: Regina (later Rosenman), Cesia (later Kaiser), Tola, Romek, Mania, and Cymusia. The children attended the Jewish public school on Ostrogorska Street in Sosnowiec. On the first day of the German occupation, Rozia's brother Romek was shot and killed by the Germans. The Zaks family lived in the Sosnowiec ghetto until August 1943, when Mendel and Hindel, Cymusia, Regina and her daughter Lola were deported to Auschwitz. They were gassed upon arrival. From Sosnowiec, Rozia was taken to the Oberaltstadt labor camp in the Sudentenland. Rozia's two sisters, Mania and Tola, joined her there later. The three sisters worked in two factories near the camp. After their liberation by the Soviet army in May 1945, the Zaks sisters returned to Sosnowiec for a short time. Rozia was placed in a children's home in Chorzow, near Sosnowiec, where she started high school. After the Kielce pogrom in July 1946, Rozia was smuggled out of Poland into Germany, with the help of members of the Bnai Akiva Zionist youth organization. She settled in the Leipheim displaced persons camp, where she remained until her immigration to the U.S. in September 1947.
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