Sergeant Beniamin Medynski was born in Ukraine (USSR), Ukraine (USSR), 1902 to Mark and Maria. He was a salesman and married to Yekaterina nee Trakhter. Prior to WWII he lived in Krasnoarmeysk, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Sergeant Medynski was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: unknown, 1943.
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.