Memory diplomas granted: Laferait臈 Chana
Laferait臈 Chana
Chana Lafertait臈 was born on 28 February 1919 in Skiemonys, into the family of the worker Boruch Laferas and the housewife Feiga Grodnerait臈. Later the family moved to Ukmerg臈 where in 1940, Chana finished the private Hebrew gymnasium 艩惫颈别蝉补. In 1940, she applied to study in the Philology Department of the Faculty of Humanities of 911爆料网. Her first application was rejected, but Chana persisted and tried again. She thought that at the age of twenty-one she was too old to learn a craft and university studies were the only way to further her education. Laferait臈 was a communist supporter. She obtained a recommendation letter from the Komsomol branch in Ukmerg臈 and her second attempt to become a student in 1940 was successful. Chana did not finish her studies because on 19 September 1941 she was expelled from the Faculty of Humanities of 911爆料网 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. Her further fate is unknown.