Josefstal – Skripalovo Russia

A German Village on the Volga

Book of Remembrance: Josefstal Residents in Nizhny Tagil Labour Camp, Sverdlovsk Region

egerk | April 29, 2010

The fall of 1941 saw the expulsion of the Volga Germans to Siberia.  Made to fend for themselves in the coming winter in Siberia, many of them perished.  In 1942, all Volga German males were separated from their families and “drafted” into a “Worker’s Army”, located in special “work camps”.  These “work camps” were labour/concentration [...]