Samuel Margolis — Association of Jews of Vilna and vicinity in Israel

(born in 1889, shot in 1944 in Paneri).

A famous interwar Vilnius doctor-radiologist.

When the Nazis marched on Vilnius, Samuelis Margolis was a doctor-radiologist at the peak of his career. S. Margolis had an X-ray room and a reception room in the house he bought in Vilnius at the intersection of today's Islandija and Vilnius streets, and his daughter Rachelė Margolis wrote in her memoirs that her father was always at work. No wonder - in 1941 September 7 after being imprisoned in the Vilnius ghetto, S. Margolis continued to work under difficult conditions at the Jewish hospital, which was located on what is now Ligoninė street. During the liquidation of the ghetto, S. Margolis led a team of seventy doctors and nurses who were sent to work in the German hospital on Antakalnis street. From there in 1944 at the beginning of July, everyone was taken to Paneri and shot when the Red Army was almost entering the city.

Memorial stone to Dr. For Samuel Margolius, Vilniaus st. 33/Islandija st. 2, in Vilnius, a doctor lived here and received patients.

From: Atminimo Akmenyas