Aleksander Lapidus was born in Novo Vorontsovka, Ukraine (USSR), 1915 to Ion and Sonia. Prior to WWII he lived in Novo Vorontsovka, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Aleksander was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Nikolayev, Ukraine (USSR), 1942.
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.