Boris Baskin was born in Saratov, Russia (USSR), 1932 to Yaakov and Ana. He was child. Prior to WWII he lived in Krasnodar, Russia (USSR). During the war he was in Yerevan, Armenia (USSR). Boris survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.