Was Registered Following the Evacuation/ in the Interior of the Soviet Union
Rukhlya Shtenberg was born, 1900 to Shimel. She was a buffet worker. Prior to WWII she lived in Novograd Volynsk, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in Primalkinskiy,Kabardino Balkarskaya ASSR,Russia (USSR), Russia (USSR). Rukhlya was registered following the evacuation/ in 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.