Gershon Shifrin was born in Belorussia (USSR), 1910 to Leyb and Shifra. He was married to Khaya nee Khasina. Prior to WWII he lived in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Gershon was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Ukraine (USSR), 1942.
Among the Jewish soldiers killed in WWII, especially in the Red Army, tens of thousands were singled out and murdered as Jews while in captivity as prisoners of war.