Ilana Rozentalienė
| Ilana Rozentalienė | |
|---|---|
| Country | Lithuania |
| Born | 1937 |
Ilana Rozentalienė (née Epšteinaitė; born 1937) was a Lithuanian chess player. She was two times winner of Lithuanian Women's Chess Championship (1962, 1965).
Biography
[edit]Ilana's parents died in the Kovno Ghetto, in Vilijampolė, a suburb of the city of Kaunas. Julija Bernotaitė, a Lithuanian woman, put Ilana to sleep with drugs, smuggled her in a sack of potatoes from the ghetto to a village in Radviliškis District, and introduced her to everyone as her daughter. Later, Ilana lived in Vilnius.[1] In the 1960s, she was one of the leading Lithuanian female chess players. She won four medals at the Lithuanian Women's Chess Championships: two gold (1962, 1965) and two bronze (1960, 1968). Her son is Eduardas Rozentalis (b. 1963), chess grandmaster.[2] Her cousin is writer Dalija Epšteinaitė.
Literature
[edit]- Игорь Бердичевский. Шахматная еврейская энциклопедия. Москва: Русский шахматный дом, 2016 (Gad Berdichevsky. The Chess Jewish Encyclopedia. Moscow: Russian Chess House, 2016, p. 210) ISBN 978-5-94693-503-6
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Ilana Rozentaliene player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- OlimpBase :: All-Time Player History :: Epsteinaitė, I.
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