Szwarcman Josef

Szwarcman Josef received transit visa no. 1853 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records bookkeeper, aged 53.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

53

Occupation

Bookkeeper

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1897, father of #1854

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  THalzsw; 1886; Warszawa
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  250-253, and family, polish; daughter M.Lichtenberg c/o Ethel Becker 152 Beach 69 st Arverne; mother Debora Modylewska c/o Becker; brother Jack Model 501 East 161 Str N.Y.; sister Rysia Engel 741-4 Str Miami Beach Florida; page 12
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  #667, age 55, b. Warsaw, clerk, from Vilno
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1524); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Szwarcman Jozef, private clerk, born 21 November 1886 MOSCOW, married — wife GOLDA-ROZA born 27 March 1888 Kiev (the register's No.1897); 404 Avenue Joffre apt 3; registered 16 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (S-228, 4 December 1941).
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 2 Feb 1941 (line 1853)