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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 5732, Józef Szwarcman, born 1886 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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…
  Entries 250 to 253 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: with family, Polish; relatives abroad: a daughter, M. Lichtenberg, care of Ethel Becker, 152 Beach 69th Street, Arverne; a mother, Debora Modylewska, care of Becker; a brother, Jack Model, 501 East 161st Street, New York; a sister, Rysia Engel, 741 4th Street, Miami Beach, Florida. The line also refers to 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…
  Entry 667 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 55, born at Warsaw, a clerk, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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)
• 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 Joseph Szwarcman, a civil servant born in 1886, of Warsaw, married to Golda, who was in Wilno during the war; the year, the city and his wife's name agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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