Was Registered Following the Evacuation to the Interior of the Soviet Union
Boris Bomshteyn was born in Chernigov City,Chernigov,Ukraine (USSR), Ukraine (USSR) in 1929 to Aleksandr and Malka nee Yudina. He was child. Prior to WWII he lived in Koryukovka, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in Kuznetsk,Penza,Russia (USSR), Russia (USSR). Boris 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.