Reb Shmuel learned the medrash Rabba on the parsha after maariv as usual and ate the seuda. He told his gabbai to go to sleep earlier because tomorrow they will read parshas zachor. During the night the gabbi heard noises and rushed in to the room to find the RY in cardiac arrest. They rushed him to sharei tzedek hospital. He was niftar at 12:30. Kevurah at hat Hamenuchos.
Reb Samuel was the oldest son of his parents Harav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ZT"L. His wife passed away in 1990. They were not zoche to have their own children but Rav Shmuel had thousands of Talmidim from his yeshiva and from those who lived in the sharei chesed neighborhood of Yerushalayim.