Was Registered Following the Evacuation/ in the Interior of the Soviet Union
Yanka Abramovich nee Shraiber was born in Krakow, Poland, 1896 to Avrom and Blyuma. She was a shop assistant and married to Khai Raikhl nee Khabenskaya. Prior to WWII she lived in Polesskoye, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in Samarkand,Samarkand,Uzbekistan (USSR), Uzbekistan (USSR). Yanka was registered following the evacuation/ in the interior of the Soviet Union.
Following the Nazi onslaught on 22 June 1941, about one and a half million Jewish residents of the Soviet Union were evacuated or fled to the interior of the country. They had to leave everything behind and find refuge in difficult conditions of food scarcity, harsh weather and disease.