Josefstal – Skripalovo Russia

A German Village on the Volga

Family Gerk: circa 1917

| December 5, 2011

This photograph was taken circa 1917 in the Volga German village of Josefstal.  The family consists of the Johan Georg Gerk family. Standing in the upper right hand side is Paul Gerk, who would escape from Russia and travel to Canada in 1924.

Nizhny Tagil Labour Camp: Gerk, Ivan Ivanovich

| November 18, 2010

Johannes Ivanovich Gerk, born in Josefstal in 1926. Source