Moishe Ilin was born in Koryukovka, Ukraine (USSR), 1915 to Ruvim and Fanya. He was a clerk and married to Nekhama nee Kaufman. Prior to WWII he lived in Koryukovka, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Moishe 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.