Student Samuelis Levinsonas
Student Samuelis Levinsonas (1922–1981) was born in Liepaja (Latvia), finished the private Chaim Nachman Bialik gymnasium with Hebrew as the language of tuition in Šiauliai, and passed the examination of the Lithuanian language that allowed him to apply to the institutions of higher learning. He chose the Economics Department at the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University where he studied from 15 November 1940 to 19 September 1941, when along with other Jewish students he was expelled from Vilnius University. This decision was made on the basis of the Department of Higher Education of the Board of Education, which was subordinate to the Nazis. Samuelis was lucky to survive the Holocaust and to emigrate to Israel where he graduated from the Tel Aviv Management College to become an economist.
