Sergeant Beniamin Medynski was born in 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.
Large numbers of Jewish soldiers serving in the Allied military forces, many of them in the Soviet army, were killed in combat or died of battle wounds.