Ada Akulinskaya was born in Chernigov City,Chernigov,Ukraine (USSR), Ukraine (USSR), 1932 to Demian and Dina. Prior to WWII she lived in Novgorod Severskiy, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in Chernigov City,Chernigov,Ukraine (USSR), Ukraine (USSR). Ada 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.