He was involved in the exodus of thousands of young men in Kletzk, Radin, Novhardok, and other yeshivas via Japan to Shanghai at the outbreak of World War II.

Shimon Sholom's son Yerachmiel Yehuda Myer Kalish (1901–1976) of Amshinov, was born in Przysucha (Yiddish: פּשיסכע Pshiskhe), Poland.

[1] He is the son of Yerachmiel Yehudah Meir Kalish's daughter Chayah Nechamah and her husband Chaim Milikowsky.

[2] In 2015 he founded an organization called Tzedaka V'chesed Amshinov as a charity in memory of Rabbi Meir Ba'al HaNes.

Yosef Kalish II was the previous Amshinover rebbe in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, New York City.