Papiermacheris Juozas

Juozas Papiermacheris was born on 8 June 1922 in Vilnius, on 4 Pylimo Street. His father Rubinas Papiermacheris, who was from Stakliškės, and his mother Feiga Zarieckytė took care of their talented son’s education, and in 1939 Juozas finished the Ch. Epstein and I. Speizer Lyceum of Natural Sciences in Vilnius passing his examinations with the highest grades. Since Juozas completed a programme in the natural sciences at the lyceum, he decided, in 1940, to continue studying the natural sciences and became a student of chemistry at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Vilnius University. Although Juozas had temporarily suspended his studies at the time when the administration of the university was undergoing changes and worked at the factory Ursus as a trainee chemist in the sections of fur processing and dyeing, he resumed his studies in the first half of 1941, when the situation stabilised. However, Juozas Papiermacheris did not finish his studies because on 19 September 1941 he, like many other Jewish students, 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. The further fate of Juozas Papiermacheris and his family is unknown.

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