Iosif Gandman was born in Polock, Belorussia (USSR), 1902 to Sleima and Leila. He was a store manager and married to Sonya. Prior to WWII he lived in Kislovodsk, Russia (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Iosif was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Soviet Union, Soviet Union, 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.