Gershel Efroimski was born in Ukraine (USSR) to Meir and Idys. He was married to Sheiva. Prior to WWII he lived in Sinelnikovo, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Gershel was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: the Soviet armed forces, 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.