Schwab Izrael Gustav

Schwab Izrael Gustav received transit visa no. 1260 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records rabbi - kamiencier yeshiva, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

German

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Rabbi - Kamiencier Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1261

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1911 Frankfurt; Kamieniec Yeshiva
• JDC Shanghai migration file: SCHWAB Gustav
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 132: SCHWAB Gustav, file no. 7757. Match: register No.1260 'chwab Izrael Gustav' (repaired: Schwab Izrael Gustav), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 7757 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai listed him among its members after the war; the list gives his year of birth as 1901 and his birthplace as Frankfurt. His wife Jenta is listed with him, and their two children, born in Shanghai. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• List of members of the United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges, Shanghai (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48661)
  Gustav Schwab is named on the list of members of the United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the only line on the register with this given name and surname; the Board was the body of the Polish rabbis and yeshiva students who reached Shanghai from Kobe in 1941, and their families, the route the register records for this line.
• List of persons processed by the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department, Shanghai, 1–30 April 1946 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48686)
  The American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai processed Gustav Schwab for emigration in April 1946, according to its list for that month, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the only line on the register with this given name and surname, and the register already records this line's arrival in Shanghai.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Gustaw Szwab, born in 1911, a rabbi of Kamieniec Litewski, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and his calling agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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