Sima Bedareva nee Rovner was born in Pyatigorsk, Russia (USSR), 1913 to Mikhail and Sara. She was a seamstress and married to Ivan. Prior to WWII she lived in Pyatigorsk, Russia (USSR). Sima survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.