The Caplan family was a Jewish family closely connected to Strandgata 34 in Tromsø, where Daniel Caplan ran the shop Londoner Bazaren from 1911. Daniel and Anna Sara Caplan had six children: Jakob, Cecilie, Pincus, Solly Salomon, Hertze, and Chone Moses (“Conrad”). During the Second World War, the family was brutally targeted in the Nazi persecution of Jews in Norway. On 18 June 1941, Solly, Hertze and Conrad were arrested in Tromsø, while Jakob was arrested in Narvik. Solly, a shopkeeper who helped run the family business, was imprisoned in several camps including Grini before being deported to Auschwitz, where he died in December 1942. Daniel and several of his sons were also murdered in the Holocaust. Cecilie and Pincus survived, as did Hertze’s wife Ingebjørg and daughter Anne-Lise.
