Elya Leyfman was born to Mordkhe. He was an engineer and married to Freyda. Prior to WWII he lived in Kiev, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Elya was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Ukraine (USSR), 1942.
Among the Jewish soldiers killed in WWII, especially in the Red Army, tens of thousands were singled out and murdered as Jews while in captivity as prisoners of war.