Chaim Swiatoj was born in Oszmiana, Poland to Avraham. He was a merchant and married to Batia nee Radushkovitz. Prior to WWII he lived in Oszmiana, Poland. During the war he was in Dolhinow, Poland. Chaim was murdered in the Shoah. Place of death: Dolhinow, Poland.
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.