Was Registered Following the Evacuation/ in the Interior of the Soviet Union
Grigori Arzhavski was born to Yakov. Prior to WWII he lived in Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in Chirchik, Uzbekistan (USSR). Grigori was registered following the evacuation/ in the interior of the Soviet Union.
Reports, including names of Jews evacuated to Tashkent and Chirchik from various places, submitted to the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, 11/1944; includes itemization of property damage
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.