Genya Blok nee Gerber was born in Bayevo, Belorussia (USSR) to Aizik. She was a housewife. Prior to WWII she lived in Yessentuki, Russia (USSR). During the war she was in Yessentuki, Russia (USSR). Genya survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.