Rosa Moissejewna Kaganowitsch

Rosa Moissejewna Kaganowitsch ( Russian Роза Моисеевна Каганович ; allegedly * 1895) is said to have been the sister or niece of Stalin's confidante Lasar Kaganowitsch . According to some sources, she is the third wife (Rosa Stalina) of Josef Stalin. However, Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilueva writes in her memoirs that the woman never existed.

In his biography of Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore suggests that this marriage was an invention of the Nazis, for whom a Jewish wife would have fitted into the concept.

Rosa Moissejewna Kaganowitsch is mentioned in numerous books that appeared during the Cold War. It appears in the alleged memoirs of the former Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov . J. Bernard Hutton, who claims to have lived in Moscow from 1934 to 1938, describes Rosa Moissejewna Kaganowitsch in detail in the book Das Privatleben Stalin, which he wrote with J. Fishman . Hutton even writes in the foreword that he knew her personally. J. Bernhard Hutton is a pseudonym of Josef Heisler . Stalin's alleged nephew Budu Svanidze devotes several chapters to her and also reports on the divorce. But it is doubted that Budu Svanidze really existed. The books attributed to him and Litvinov are said to have come from the same source and were launched.

Sources / literature

represents Rosa Moissejewna Kaganowitsch as a real person:

Budu Svanidze: In the narrowest circle. The unknown Stalin portrayed by his nephew . Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft , 1953.
Maxim Litvinov: Memoirs. Notes from secret diaries . Kindler Verlag Munich 1956.
Jack Fishman and J. Bernard Hutton: The Personal Life of Josef Stalin . Paul Zsolnay Verlag , 1965.

regards Rosa Moissejewna Kaganowitsch as an invention:

Simon Sebag Montefiore : Stalin . S. Fischer Verlag , 2005.

Further:

Роза Моисеевна Каганович. In: Wjatscheslaw Rumjanzew (Ed.): ХРОНОС – Биографический справочник. (Russian; available online )