David Ratner was born in Bobruysk, Belorussia (USSR), 1907. He was married to Sily Sili. Prior to WWII he lived in Bobruysk, Belorussia (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. David was killed in military service in WWII.
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.