David Dorfmann was born in Odessa, Ukraine (USSR), 1928 to Pessach and Fruma nee Shmueleviz. He was a pupil and child. Prior to WWII he lived in Odessa, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in Odessa, Ukraine (USSR). David was murdered in the Shoah. Place of death: Odessa, Ukraine (USSR).
During the Shoah, Jews were murdered in a variety of ways, among them gassing, shooting, burning, drowning or burial alive, exhaustion through forced labor, starvation, epidemic diseases, deprivation of medical care and minimal hygienic conditions, and more. Some Jews took their own lives in order to escape arrest and further persecution, or to end their hopeless, relentless suffering.