Meyer Khayut was born on February 11, 1937, in the city of Mogilev-Podolsky (Mohyliv-Podilskyi) Ukraine. At the start of the war, in August 1941, Meyer lived in the Mogilev-Podolsky ghetto. In December 1941, he was moved to the Pechora concentration camp until January 1944. In January 1944, Meyer escaped Pechora and remained in hiding until March 1944. Meyer survived the Holocaust with his mother Golda Khayut, nee Sverchuk. Many of Meyer’s relatives were killed in Pechora concentration camp including his youngest brother, Syema (b. 1939), both his grandparents, Basyer Sverchuk and Feida Khayut, and his cousin, Monya Galperiu (b. 1938). Meyer’s uncle and his family of four were among the Jews buried alive by Ukrainian local police in the village of Yaryshev. After the war, Meyer and his mother eventually returned to Mogilev-Podolsky. His father was in the Soviet Army fighting against the Germans and was reunited with the family after the war. Meyer later finished high school, and university. He was married in 1962. His mother, Golda, died in 1987. Meyer Khayut moved to Chicagoland on August 28, 1989, where he later worked with the Cook County Highway Department.