Boris Rubin was born in Dukhovshchina, Russia (USSR), 1931 to Zalman and Reveka. He was child. Prior to WWII he lived in Dukhovshchina, Russia (USSR). During the war he was in Noginsk, Russia (USSR). Boris 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.