Lev Barshai Berish was born in Svisloch, Belorussia (USSR), 1930 to Beniamin and Chana. He was teenager. Prior to WWII he lived in Svisloch, Belorussia (USSR). During the war he was in Novo Orsk, Russia (USSR). Lev 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.