Motl Motel Baran was born in Kalinovka, Ukraine (USSR), 1920 to Gidal and Brukha nee Vainman. He was a technician. Prior to WWII he lived in Kalinovka, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Motl Motel was killed in military service in WWII.
Among the Jewish soldiers killed in WWII, especially in the Red Army, tens of thousands were singled out and murdered as Jews while in captivity as prisoners of war.