Iosif Shagalov was born in Vitebsk, Belorussia (USSR), 1910 to Nokhum and Berta. He was a journalist and married to Debora. Prior to WWII he lived in Moskva, Russia (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Iosif was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Kiev, Ukraine (USSR), 1941.
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.