Itzyk Smolyar was born in Vaskovichi, Ukraine (USSR), 1922 to Velvl and Ita. He was a hairdresser and married. Prior to WWII he lived in Luginy, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Itzyk 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.