Julija Biliūnienė

Julija Biliūnienė Janulaitytė (1880–1978) was a Lithuanian dentist.

Educated at a three-year dental school in Šiauliai, Biliūnienė opened a private practice in Panevėžys in 1902. Caring for her terminally ill husband writer Jonas Biliūnas, she lived and worked in Zakopane. In 1911, she graduated from a two-year dental school in Paris. In 1918, she moved to Vilnius where she worked at the hospital of the Lithuanian Sanitary Aid Society. She moved to Kaunas in 1931 and was one of the co-founders of the Lithuanian Dentists' Society in 1934. During World War II, she helped hide five Jews for which she was awarded the Life Saving Cross in 2002.

Biography Early life and education Julija Biliūnienė was born on 1 September 1880 in near Šiauliai, then part of the Russian Empire. The family had 13 children, nine of whom reached adulthood and five completed university education.