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
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: 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