Sara Arshanskaya was born in Novgorod Siverskiy, Ukraine (USSR), 1879 to Pinkhas. She was a housewife and married to Isak. Prior to WWII she lived in Novgorod Siverskiy, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in Novgorod Siverskiy, Ukraine (USSR). Sara 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.