Was Registered Following the Evacuation/ in the Interior of the Soviet Union
Ita Leya Balshina nee Spivak was born in Andrushevka, Ukraine (USSR), 1899 to Meyer. She was married to Solomon. Prior to WWII she lived in Andrushevka, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (USSR). Ita Leya 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.