Shapshel Aleksandr Chilevich was born in Tsyurupinsk, Ukraine (USSR), 1922 to Yakov and Sonia. He was a sailor and single. Prior to WWII he lived in Tsyurupinsk, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Shapshel Aleksandr was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Black Sea, 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.