Mark
Take a look in this site:
http://linktoyourroots.hamburg.de From Pommern, leaving Hamburg for New York : TUSCHLING August, Bertha, Emma, Minna, Reinh.d, and Wilh.e. Those are the same people that came thru Ellis Island.
Using One Step
www.stevemorse.org there was someone from Wasofka, Germany which does look similar in spelling to Wassofke. Just throwing some tidbits of information which might prove to be nothing more than that. You need to locate a name of a town.