Josefstal – Skripalovo Russia

A German Village on the Volga

Josef Hoffman and Family

egerk | February 11, 2008

Born August 5, 1886, the son of Johannes Hoffman and Anna Maria Konrad, Josef Hoffman died in Josefstal in the famine of 1933.  He had only one hand and could read and write. His siblings included Katarina Hoffman, who would marry Heinrich Schaab; and Susanna Hoffman, who would marry Phillip Blattner.  Both these familes would [...]