Malai Grinberg was born in Mogilev Podolski, Ukraine (USSR), 1912 to Yefim. He was married. Prior to WWII he lived in Yaryshev, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Malai was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: unknown, 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.