The Kovno Kollel was later transferred to Slabodka, a suburb of Kovno, where Rabbi Shimon Zvi Dubiansky was appointed rosh kollel and served there until the outbreak of World War II.
Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna (1890–1969) was a disciple of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, (known as the "Alter (elder) of Slabodka"), spiritual mentor of the Slabodka yeshiva.
In 2013, Secondary school of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences was established in Vilijampolė district of Kaunas.
On 20 December 2012, Kaunas city municipality decided to transfer the building of the liquidated Vilijampolė school to the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.