Yakov German was born in Koryukovka, Ukraine (USSR), 1917 to Emmanuil. He was a zagotovitel skota and married to Bella nee Stotzkaya. Prior to WWII he lived in Lugansk, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Yakov was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Narva, Estonia, 03/1944.
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.