Kaplan Lia Vulfovna (1941)

Kaplan Lia Vulfovna (b. 21 May 1941, Riga) — sales clerk.

Lia Kaplan was the daughter of Anna Kaplan (née Schwarz) (b. 1910, Paris) and Vulf Kaplan (1910, Riga – 1942). She completed 9 grades of secondary school.

In 1961 she worked as an archivist at the Riga Design and Estimation Office, then as a blueprint copyist at the design bureau of the Latvian SSR Economic Council. From 1961 to 1962 she was a typist at the Administrative Department of the Economic Council of the Latvian SSR, and in 1962 a secretary-typist at the Institute of Physical Culture.

Since 1963 she worked as a sales clerk in Riga City Industrial Trade, at the Children’s World store, and later in the Jūrmala Trade Department.

In 1966 Lia Kaplan received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her mother’s sister, Zuzanna Finkelstein (née Schwarz) (b. 1911, Paris), who had emigrated from Latvia the same year.

Family:

Anna Kaplan (née Schwarz) (b. 1910, Paris) — mother
Vulf Kaplan (1910, Riga – 1942) — father
Semen Kaplan (b. 1934, Riga) — brother
Zuzanna Finkelstein (née Schwarz) (b. 1911, Paris) — maternal aunt