Lazar Barsuk was born in Ukraine (USSR), Ukraine (USSR), 1898 to Samuilo. He was an officer and married to Roza nee Avrakh. Prior to WWII he lived in Genichesk, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Lazar was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: unknown, 1941.
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.