Sholom Barkan was born in Logoysk, Belorussia (USSR), 1920 to David and Libeta nee Mezo. He was a student and single. Prior to WWII he lived in Logoysk, Belorussia (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Sholom was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Stalingrad, Russia (USSR), 1943.
Large numbers of Jewish soldiers serving in the Allied military forces, many of them in the Soviet army, were killed in combat or died of battle wounds.