Mortkhe Bresler was born in Pilawa, Poland, 1908 to Srul and Perl. He was an officer and married to Hana. Prior to WWII he lived in Krasilov, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Mortkhe was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: the Soviet armed forces, 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.