Grigori Taitz was born in Gomel, Belorussia (USSR), 1920 to Abram and Riva. He was married to Sonya nee Veksler. Prior to WWII he lived in Gomel, Belorussia (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Grigori was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Leningrad City, Russia (USSR), 1941.
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.