Mikhail Krupnik was born in Odessa, Ukraine (USSR), 1909 to Markus Meyer and Khinya nee Dolinskaya. He was an employee and married to Polya. Prior to WWII he lived in Golaya Pristan, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Mikhail was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: the Soviet armed forces, 00/07/1944.
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.