Khaim Yefim Likhterov was born in Kholmy, Ukraine (USSR), 1897 to Girsh Fayvish Grigoriy and Freyda nee Barkan. He was a soldier and married to Frada nee Gurevich. Prior to WWII he lived in Dobryanka, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Khaim Yefim was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Smolensk,Russia (USSR), Russia (USSR), 28/10/1943.
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.