Was Registered Following the Evacuation/ in the Interior of the Soviet Union
Bela Belkina was born, 1914 to Lev and Zlata. She was a chemistry teacher. Prior to WWII she lived in Uvarovichi, Belorussia (USSR). During the war she was in Kuybyshevskiy (Kuybyshev),Kuybyshev,Russia (USSR), Russia (USSR). Bela 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.