Mitya Atenzon was born in Salnitsa, Ukraine (USSR), 1939 to Usher and Sofia. He was baby. Prior to WWII he lived in Salnitsa, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in Forest. Mitya 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.