Was Registered Following the Evacuation to the Interior of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Derzhitski was born in 1929 to Matvey and Bronya. He was child. Prior to WWII he lived in Chervona Zirka Kolkhoz, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in Ilovlinskaya,Stalingrad,Russia (USSR), Russia (USSR). Mikhail 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.