Kruglikaitė / Kruglikówna / Kruglik Chana

Chana Kruglikaitė was born into a family of Vilnius Jews on 25 November 1919. Her father Aizyk was from Indura in the powiat of Hrodna (Belarus), her mother’s name was Lėja Ebicz. The family lived on Stepono Street 32. She received her primary education at the Vilnius Central Jewish Committee and from 1929–1937 attended its coeducational gymnasium Oświata (Enlightenment), having chosen to study mathematics and the natural sciences. Around 1939, Chana became a student in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Vilnius University, but due to her family’s complicated financial situation she had to suspend her studies. Nevertheless, on 4 October 1940, she re-entered the university and was admitted into the Department of Semitic Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Vilnius University. After just two semesters of studies, on 19 September 1941, she was expelled from the university on the basis of the Order of 17 September 1941 of the Higher Education Department of the Board of Education, which was subordinate to the Nazis. She was imprisoned in the Vilnius Ghetto and probably worked in the ghetto library. She was killed in Vilnius with her brother Ošeras Kruglikas. There is no information about the fate of their parents.

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