Leo Rozentalis

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Leo Rozentalis (* 1937 ) is a Lithuanian chess player. He also plays correspondence chess . Since 1994 Leo Rozentalis has held the title of "International Correspondence Chess Master" (IM). Rozentalis fulfilled the IM norm at the 18th World Championships WC18 / SF4 (1989–1995), in the 4th semifinals. 1992 his Fernschach- was Elo 2417th

Life

Leo Rozentalis comes from a Lithuanian-Jewish family. She lived in Kaunas . His father was a teacher at Šmuelis Rozentalis Sholem Aleichem- -Gymnasium and worked in a brigade that the brickyard in Sargėnai the township Kaunas served. During the Second World War , the Rozentalis family lived in the Kauen ghetto .

After the rumors about the liquidation spread in the ghetto, Š decided. Rozentalis to rescue his underage son Leo from the ghetto. He asked the farmer Petras Macijauskas, who lived in Rožių village on IX fortas , whether he could take the boy with him. Macijauskas did not hesitate and agreed to build a safe shelter. Not only Petras Macijauskas took care of Leo, but the whole family: his daughters Violeta and Liudvika and the sons Zenonas and Robertas. Another four Jews found refuge at Macijauskas. The Gestapo searched the homestead without success. The house was soon ransacked again by the local police. Petras Macijauskas was arrested and tortured, but denied all charges. Eventually he became free. Children interviewed separately did not reveal the secret. Leo was hidden and successfully rescued by the Macijauskas family (now Righteous Among the Nations ) from 1943 to August 1944 .

Rozentalis lives in Vilnius .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Leo Rozentalis
  2. ↑ WC18 / SF4, World Championship 18 Semifinal 4
  3. ↑ Pasipildė Pasaulio tautų teisuolių sąrašas (information from the daily newspaper Kauno diena )
  4. ↑ Prezidentas apdovanojo žydų gelbėtojus
  5. ↑ 2005 12 14-15 Pasaulio Tautų Teisiuolių apdovanojimo ceremonijos Vilniuje ir Kaune
  6. ↑ Correspondence chess in Lithuania: History at the Lithuanian Chess Federation (LKŠF)
personal data
SURNAME Rozentalis, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 1937