Was Registered Following the Evacuation to the Interior of the Soviet Union
Boris Braginski Smitzki was born in 1934 to Lev and Yevdokia. He was child. Prior to WWII he lived in Koryukivka, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in Zherdevka,Tambov,Russia (USSR), Russia (USSR). Boris was registered following the evacuation to the interior of the Soviet Union.
Following the Nazi onslaught on 22 June 1941, about one and a half million Jewish residents of the Soviet Union were evacuated or fled to the interior of the country. They had to leave everything behind and find refuge in difficult conditions of food scarcity, harsh weather and disease.