Ilana Rozentalienė (née Epšteinaitė; born 1937) was a Lithuanian

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player. She was two times winner of Lithuanian Women's Chess Championship (1962, 1965).

Biography

Ilana's parents died in the

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, in

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, a suburb of the city of

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. 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

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. 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 Eduardas Rozentalis (born 27 May 1963 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian chess grandmaster. He played for the Lithuanian team in every Chess Olympiad since 1992, except in 2000 and 2012. Rozentalis won the Lithuanian Chess Championship in 1981, 1983 ...

(b. 1963), chess grandmaster.Talentų yra, reikia pastangų
/ref> Her cousin is writer Dalija Epšteinaitė.

Literature

* Игорь Бердичевский. Шахматная еврейская энциклопедия. Москва: Русский шахматный дом, 2016 (Gad Berdichevsky. The Chess Jewish Encyclopedia. Moscow: Russian Chess House, 2016, p. 210)

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1937 births Living people People from Vilnius Lithuanian Jews Lithuanian female chess players Lithuanian chess players Soviet female chess players Soviet chess players Jewish chess players Kovno Ghetto inmates Holocaust survivors {{Lithuania-chess-bio-stub