Iosif Khait was born in Strizhavka, Ukraine (USSR), 1903 to Pinkhas and Brana. He was a shoemaker and married to Etel. Prior to WWII he lived in Strizhavka, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Iosif was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: unknown, 1942.
Among the Jewish soldiers killed in WWII, especially in the Red Army, tens of thousands were singled out and murdered as Jews while in captivity as prisoners of war.