Was Registered Following the Evacuation/ in the Interior of the Soviet Union
Ilia Balabanyuk was born, 1928 to Vitali. He was a schoolboy and child. Prior to WWII he lived in Gulbinski, Latvia. During the war he was in Chkalovsk, Russia (USSR). Ilia 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.