Iosif Kelman was born in Uman, Ukraine (USSR), 1910 to Abram and Feiga nee Millirud. He was a sekretar raikoma and married to Klara nee Gershenshtein. Prior to WWII he lived in Chemerovtsy, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Iosif was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Smolensk,Russia (USSR), Russia (USSR), 01/02/1942.
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.