Was Registered Following the Evacuation/ in the Interior of the Soviet Union
Sara Chatzkis nee Mazur was born in Talnoye, Ukraine (USSR), 1909 to Leyzer and Brana. She was a shop assistant and married to Naum. Prior to WWII she lived in Yessentuki, Russia (USSR). During the war she was in Derbent, Russia (USSR). Sara was registered following the evacuation/ in the interior of the Soviet Union.
Following the Nazi onslaught on 22 June 1941, about one and a half million Jewish residents of the Soviet Union were evacuated or fled to the interior of the country. They had to leave everything behind and find refuge in difficult conditions of food scarcity, harsh weather and disease.