Complex sentence: He was born in a small village Kozhan Gorodok Belarus and raised in a near by village Davyd-Haradok Belarus (then Poland), and survived the Holocaust in Samarkand, Soviet Union.
Split into simpler sentences: He was born in a small village Kozhan Gorodok, Belarus and raised in a nearby village Davyd-Haradok, Belarus (then Poland). He survived the Holocaust in Samarkand, Soviet Union.