Wolf Durmashkin was born in Lithuania, the exact place of birth is unknown.
He organized a symphony orchestra and a 100-voice Hebrew choir while incarcerated in the Vilna Ghetto.
The ghetto orchestra performed 35 chamber and symphonic concerts in the 15 months of its existence under his direction.
In September 1943 when the Vilna Ghetto was liquidated, Wolf Durmashkin was taken to the Klooga, Estonia concentration camp.
[2] The cause was the 70th anniversary of a concert played by Jewish Holocaust survivors from the DP-Orchestra in Landsberg am Lech on 10 May 1948.