Semen Krupnik was born in Smela, Ukraine (USSR), 1910 to Mejer nee Dolinski. Prior to WWII he lived in Golaya Pristan, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Semen was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (USSR), 1941.
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.