Boris Grinshtein was born in Domaczewo, Poland, 1920 to Shalom and Masha. He was single. Prior to WWII he lived in Domaczewo, Poland. During the war he was in Polesie, Poland. Boris 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.