Eliahu Shtarkman was born in Rawa Ruska, Poland, 1915 to Shimon and Frida. Prior to WWII he lived in Rawa Ruska, Poland. During the war he was in Forest. Eliahu 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.