Schwab Sara Jenta

Schwab Sara Jenta received transit visa no. 1261 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. Aged 20 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

German

Age in 1940

20

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1260

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)
  1920 Malecz; Germany
• 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 (names closely match; approved under the owner's standing review)