Avraam Arshanski was born in Novgorod Severskiy, Ukraine (USSR), 1904 to Isaak and Sara. He was a hairdresser. Prior to WWII he lived in Novgorod Severskiy, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Avraam was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Leningrad, Russia (USSR), 1943.
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.