Was Registered Following the Evacuation/ in the Interior of the Soviet Union
Sonya Anikina nee Zatuchnaya was born in Golovanevsk, Ukraine (USSR), 1917 to Shoyl and Khayka. She was a housewife and married to Ilya. Prior to WWII she lived in Golovanevsk, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (USSR). Sonya 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.