Faya Paia Borokhov was born in Chernigov, Ukraine (USSR), 1914 to Mendel and Blyuma. She was a worker and married to Roza. Prior to WWII she lived in Bakhmach, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in the Soviet armed forces. Faya Paia was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Leningrad, Russia (USSR), 1942.
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.