Roza Bieliauskiene

Yiddish Book Center (Emily B.) · July 29, 2012

Roza Bieliauskiene, active member of the Vilnius, Lithuania Jewish community, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on July 29, 2012 in Vilnius, Lithuania. This interview is conducted entirely in Yiddish. Roza's parents were survivors from a shtetl outside of Vilnius. She grew up in Soviet Vilnius in a Yiddish home and recalls hearing the language spoken on the streets of her Jewish neighborhood. Roza worked as an engineer for many years before delving into the world of Jewish and Yiddish cultural activism. She served as head curator at the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum for nearly twenty years as well as teaching Yiddish in the Sholem Aleichem Jewish School. Today, she continues to teach Yiddish while also working on a book detailing the Jewish history of Lithuania. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story To cite this interview: Roza Bieliauskiene Oral History Interview, interviewed by Christa Whitney, Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, Vilnius, Lithuania, July 29, 2012. Video recording, https://archive.org/details/RozaBieliauskiene29july2012YiddishBookCenter ( [date accessed] )