Was Registered Following the Evacuation to the Interior of the Soviet Union
Maria Derzhitskaya was born in 1932 to Matvey and Bronya. She was child. Prior to WWII she lived in Chervona Zirka Kolkhoz, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in Ilovlinskaya,Stalingrad,Russia (USSR), Russia (USSR). Maria was registered following the evacuation to 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.