A young revolutionary Ruža Shulman

She was born on January 6, 1917 in Veliki Beckerek, in the family of Emanuel and Teresa Shulman, who had two more daughters - Teresa and Flora. According to her mother, she was of Jewish origin.

After primary school, she attended the Trade Academy in Petrovgrad, where she joined the youth revolutionary movement. In 1936, she became a member of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ). While hanging out with the revolutionary youth, she met Vladimir Kolarov Koča, a poet and one of the leaders of the Youth Movement in Petrovgrad. Together with him, she actively worked on organizing the Youth Movement (OMPOK) and its popularization in northern Banat, for which reason she was arrested in 1937. She also became acquainted with Marxist ideas through Koča, so in 1938 she was accepted into the membership of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY).

As a member of the CPY, she worked even more actively on involving the youth in the revolutionary movement, and she was also active in the work of the People's Aid organization, which collected aid for political prisoners and their families. As a member of the Local Committee of the CPY for Petrovgrad, in May 1940 she was arrested in a large police burglary in the Petrograd party organization. At that time, a large number of Petrograd communists were arrested, including Zarko Zrenjanin, Toza Markovic and her fiancé Koca Kolarov. Police agents tried to break her fiancé with Ruža's arrest, but since they failed to do so, they released her. After her release from prison, she continued her activity and was the secretary of the Local Committee of SKOJ for Petrovgrad.

At the beginning of the occupation of Yugoslavia, in April 1941, Ruža had to take refuge in Elemir, in order to avoid arrest due to her Jewish origin. In May 1941, she returned to Beckerek, where she actively assisted Kochi Kolarov in organizing the uprising. Together with Koča and other associates, and above all Klara Feješ, she helped in the work of the technique of the District Committee of the CPY for northern Banat. They printed various anti-fascist propaganda material, in Serbian, but also in Hungarian and German. Just before the beginning of the uprising, she was accepted into the membership of the OK KPJ for northern Banat.

On July 23, 1941, the occupier managed to discover the OK KPJ base for northern Banat, which was located in the vineyard of Andrija Nićetin and his son Zoran Nićetin Mira, in the vicinity of Beckerek. In this base, in addition to Ruža and Koča, there was also her brother from aunt Frank Samuel Šandor. After the arrest, they were imprisoned in the Banatska prefecture prison in Beckerek, where they were tortured and ill-treated. Since the partisans in Banat have already started with the actions of burning grain, on July 25, grain was burned on the Bosniak farm, near Beckerek. In retaliation, on July 26, 1941, the occupier shot five detainees on that farm. In addition to Ruža Shulman, Koča Kolarova and Frank Samuel, Stojan Arsenov and Tiberije Aldan, detainees from Kikinda, were shot dead.

One street in Zrenjanin is named after Ruža Shulman, as well as a settlement built in the vicinity of that street. A memorial bust, the work of sculptor Ljubica Tapavicki, was erected in the park in the "Ruza Shulman" settlement.