Was Registered Following the Evacuation/ in the Interior of the Soviet Union
Reyzya Arshavskikh was born, 1882 to Tzale. She was married to Zinoviy. Prior to WWII she lived in Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in Nizhnyaya Salda, Russia (USSR). Reyzya was registered following the evacuation/ in the interior of the Soviet Union.
Following the Nazi onslaught on 22 June 1941, about one and a half million Jewish residents of the Soviet Union were evacuated or fled to the interior of the country. They had to leave everything behind and find refuge in difficult conditions of food scarcity, harsh weather and disease.