Hirsh Apelman was born in Ukraine (USSR), Ukraine (USSR), 1903 to Mendel and Dana. He was a clerk. Prior to WWII he lived in Korosten, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Hirsh was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Soviet Union, Soviet Union, 1941.
Among the Jewish soldiers killed in WWII, especially in the Red Army, tens of thousands were singled out and murdered as Jews while in captivity as prisoners of war.