Samuil Zurer was born in Zolotonosha, Ukraine (USSR), 1923 to Shlema and Ester nee Lokshina. He was a medizinstudentin and single. Prior to WWII he lived in Zolotonosha, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Samuil was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Kohtla Jarve, Estonia, 28/03/1944.
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.