Monia Moshe Gonikman was born in Briceni, Romania in 1932 to Tzvi Hersh Alter and Gitel. Prior to WWII he lived in Briceni, Romania. During the war he was in Briceni, Romania. Monia Moshe survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.