Solomianski Arja

Arja Solomianski (1913–1944?) was born in Vilnius. In 1935, he received a maturity certificate from the Teachers’ Association Gymnasium in Vilnius. Still studying at the gymnasium, in 1934 he began working as a clerk in a forest materials company to help his father, a forest material sorter, who had to support a large family. In 1936, Arja entered the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at Stephen Báthory University. He had to suspend the studies due to a lack of funds. In September 1940, he returned to study to the Department of Economics of Vilnius University. In the same year, he got married. In 1941, he 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, under the authority of the National Socialists. The name of Arja Solomianski, born in Vilnius in 1913, is among the Jewish prisoners imprisoned in the Klooga concentration camp in Estonia in 1941-1944. According to the Yad Vashem Holocaust victim database, the individual matching this description was murdered during the Holocaust.

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