Yitzkhak Benderski was born in Romania, Romania, 1916 to Yeshiyah Shaia and Henia. He was married to Mina nee Rabinovitz. Prior to WWII he lived in Cinisauti, Romania. During the war he was in Mogilev Podolski, Ukraine (USSR). Yitzkhak 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.