Rotbart Beila Elievna (11 August 1917, Pskov) — clothing designer.
In 1934 Beila Rotbart graduated from the Jēkabpils Secondary School. In the same year she moved to Riga and until 1938 studied at the sewing school of the society “ORT.” In 1938–1940 she worked as a seamstress in private workshops in Riga.
In 1941 she was evacuated to the city of Buzuluk in Chkalov Region, where until 1944 she worked as a dressmaker in the municipal industrial trade organisation. In 1945 she returned to Riga. Until 1947 she worked as a dressmaker at the enterprise “Glavneftestroy.”
In 1949–1972 she worked as a designer at the Riga House of Fashion.
During the Holocaust her parents were killed — Ilya Rotbart (1874, Jēkabpils — 1941, Jēkabpils) and Libe Rotbart (1878, Jēkabpils — 1941, Jēkabpils), as well as her brother Anatoly Rotbart (1909, Jēkabpils — 1941, Jēkabpils) and her sister Ginda Kit (Rotbart) (1908, Jēkabpils — 1941, Riga). In 1972 she received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her brother Yitzhak Rotbart (1910, Jēkabpils), who had left Latvia for Palestine in the 1930s.
Family:
Ilya Rotbart (1874, Jēkabpils — 1941, Jēkabpils) — father
Libe Rotbart (1878, Jēkabpils — 1941, Jēkabpils) — mother
Ginda Kit (Rotbart) (1908, Jēkabpils — 1941, Riga) — sister
Abram Rotbart (1905, Jēkabpils) — brother
Anatoly Rotbart (1909, Jēkabpils — 1941, Jēkabpils) — brother
Yitzhak Rotbart (1910, Jēkabpils) — brother
Khava Zhukovskaya (Rotbart) (1913, Jēkabpils — 1957, Riga) — sister
Mikhla Zilberberg (Rotbart) (1919, Jēkabpils) — sister
Feiga Eidelman (Rotbart) (1918, Jēkabpils) — sister