Mayya Basovskaya nee Fishman was born in Nemirov, Ukraine (USSR), 1930 to Samuil. She was child. Prior to WWII she lived in Nemirov, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in Mitan, Uzbekistan (USSR). Mayya 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.