Was Registered Following the Evacuation/ in the Interior of the Soviet Union
Lidiya Markushevich was born, 1926 to Boris and Betra. She was an uchashchiysya and child. Prior to WWII she lived in Arkhangelskoye, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in Nizhne Chirskaya, Russia (USSR). Lidiya 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.