Was Registered Following the Evacuation/ in the Interior of the Soviet Union
Arkadi Aknov was born, 1910 to Boris and Olga. He was an accountant and married to Polina nee Mariyanova. Prior to WWII he lived in Gorlovka, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in Novosibirsk, Russia (USSR). Arkadi 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.