Yakov Veitzman was born in Bendery, Romania, 1919 to Ikhil and Riva. He was a technician and married to Rakhel. Prior to WWII he lived in Bendery, Romania. During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Yakov was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Mogilev, Belorussia (USSR), 05/12/1943.
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.