Yeina Aksel was born in Beshenkowitschi, Belorussia (USSR), 1902 to Mendel and Tzilya. He was a carpenter and married to Eva nee Lepler. Prior to WWII he lived in Beshenkowitschi, Belorussia (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Yeina was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: unknown, 1941.
Large numbers of Jewish soldiers serving in the Allied military forces, many of them in the Soviet army, were killed in combat or died of battle wounds.