Tamara Kompaniyetz was born in Pologi, Ukraine (USSR), 1937 to Semyon Sołomon and Yevgeniya Zelda. Prior to WWII she lived in Pologi, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in Kazakhstan (USSR). Tamara 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.