In 1951, when the political situation had improved somewhat, Christoffel – by this time over 70 and frail – again set out for Isfahan in order to do what he had seen as his task throughout his entire life: to help the disabled, impoverished and abandoned. Ernst J. Christoffel died on 23 April 1955 in Isfahan. The inscription on his gravestone in the town”s Armenian cemetary reads “Father of the blind, deaf and dumb and children of nobody”.