Person
Sonja
Sonja
Pejsach Kaplan’s eldest daughter, holding a responsible position in a factory.
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... On February 5, 1943, when the Nazis began to liqui-
date the Bialystok ghetto, Pejsach Kaplan was in hid-
ing, virtually suffocating. At night he risked going
outside for some fresh air, but he caught a cold. On the
third day of the bloodbath he found it possible to go to
the factory in which his eldest daughter Sonja occupied
a responsible position. Kaplan, ill with fever, ran from
one window to the other, risking a bullet to the head, to
see how the empty streets looked and how the Jews sen-
tenced to death were being led about. ...Connected nodes
Person
Pejsach Kaplan
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Pejsach Kaplan
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Person
Refoel Rajzner
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Community
Bialystok ghetto
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Organization
Judenrat
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Gestapo
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SS
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Publication
The Bialystoker Memorial Book
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