Fanya Polonskaya was born in Novozybkov, Russia (USSR), 1908 to Nota and Risya. Prior to WWII she lived in Novozybkov, Russia (USSR). During the war she was in the Soviet armed forces. Fanya was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Leningrad, Russia (USSR), 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.