English Translation

Elis. v.Steun Prague VII, Rösslerstr.18 29.JUNI 1944 Prague, 16.6.1944. E To the leader of the SD section Prague 4-Obersturmbannführer J a c o b i J Prague. B a 1S Wylk bafallem, Betr.: Complaint. I live with my two children in a three-room apartment in Prague VII, Rösslerstrasse l8; the house belongs to the boarding house of the Poldi hut. I do all my housework alone, only to the heavy work (knocking carpets) I have from time to time to an operator, who however has no other time than to come to me in the afternoon. On l2.6. At 2.30 p.m. I went to our yard with my operator to knock a big carpet. It is impossible for a person alone to knock this carpet and so I was forced to do this time, because my operator, as mentioned above, can't help it. Hardly had we started knocking when Mrs. Wilde (the wife of a German police chief secretary), who lives in the ground floor of the house, came to me shaking and screaming and shouted: "Does the carpet belong to you? You will stop knocking immediately". She took such a challenging attitude that I had to face a slap at any moment. Then she still shouted that other ladies than I knock carpets myself, that I should be ashamed to knock now, but only the Germans, Czechs would never do such a thing, the law applies only to employees and not to lazy people and so on. It wasn't until I told her that I couldn't shy away from work, but that I could not knock the carpet alone and she asked if she would help me in the morning, she left us the big b.w. St.M.xC - 23g/4