Bentzion Potekhin was born in Genichesk, Ukraine (USSR), 1909 to Yevsei and Maryasha. He was a shoemaker and married. Prior to WWII he lived in Zaporozhye, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Bentzion was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Stalingrad, Russia (USSR), 1942.
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.