Nochem Awerbuch, also recorded as Nochimas Averbuchas, was born in 1897 in Vilnius. He married Emma-Etel Katz there on 2 December 1923, and they had a son, Isaak. He was murdered in the Holocaust, recorded on the list of Jews of Vilna killed between 24 June 1941 and 13 July 1944.