Landė Šliomas

Šliomas Landė was born on 23 February 1919 in Kalvarija, Marijampolė County. His family lived on Prekybos Street 22 in Kalvarija, but his gymnasium was 29 kilometres away, in the town of Vilkaviškis. After two years, in 1937, he graduated from the private Jewish gymnasium in Vilkaviškis and enrolled in the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. He later continued his studies at Vilnius University. On 26 July 1941, Šliomas received permission from the university to go on summer holiday to Kalvarija. It is not clear whether he managed to return to Vilnius (he lived on Danilevičius Street) for the new academic year or stayed at his parents’ home, when on 19 September 1941 he was expelled from the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Vilnius 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, just because he was a Jew. Šliomas’s further fate is unknown.

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