[1][2][3] Malvina Kaplan (née Kaminer) was born in Lodz, Poland into a religious family.
[2] Following her artistic passion, she enrolled in the year 1937 in the Warsaw Academy of Art; however, due to the circumstances surrounding the eruption of the Second World War, she was forced to leave her studies.
However, in 1944, Malvina's Jewish identity was revealed, and she was subsequently deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp before being transported to Ravensbruck and then to Malchow.
Malvina, striving to free herself from the Polish Impressionism on which she grew, decided to enroll in the Avni Art Institute in Tel Aviv.
In the 1970s, most of her work was abstract, with wild arrays of pastels and powerful bright colors or, in contrast, darker, somber ones.