Chaja Cheikaraite

Chaja Cheikaraitė (1920–1942?) was born in Vilnius into the family of Merka and Šymonas Cheikeris. From 1927 to 1934, she studied at Folk School No. 38, and from 1934 to 1937, she was a student of Ch. Epšteinas and J. Špeizeris Coeducational Lyceum. From 1937 to 1939, Cheikaraitė studied at the Lyceum of Natural Sciences. In the fall of 1939, she applied to study at the Chemistry Department of Stefan Batory University but did not have the money needed to continue her education. On 5 September 1940, Cheikaraitė filed a new application to study at the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Vilnius University but was not accepted. On 15 October that year, she filed yet another application for the same studies, and this time, she was accepted. On 19 September 1941, she was expelled from the university pursuant to the Order of 17 September 1941 of the Department of Higher Education of the Board of Education. No further information on the fate of Chaja Cheikaraitė is known. According to the Yad Vashem database (it can be assumed that she was recorded as Chaiker Chaja), she perished during the Holocaust.

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