Roza Opatova nee Meykelman was born in Vinnitsa,Ukraine (USSR), Ukraine (USSR), 1912 to Iosif. She was an educator and married to Izrayel. Prior to WWII she lived in Nemirov, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in Chirchik, Uzbekistan (USSR). Roza 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.