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$\$ Olmütz, 19 July 1943. Büuo des Staa:siek be n Reichspeo ek in Bohemia and Mahren. 32 To the Cing.: 2Q. JULI 1943 State Secretary SS-Obergruppenführer K.H. Fr a n k Prag IV. Czerninpalais MSTE srOseE bet us Trdirt 'ne edaenSneeiale n Dear Secretary of State! On 1 April 940, I submitted to the Ministry of the Interior in Prague the application for compensation against the improvement of my widow's pension, which was rejected to my greatest stranger. Since I, Mr. Secretary of State, do not know any other way out of my distress, I am confidently addressing you with the request to help me. I therefore allow myself for the first time to present the facts. As a widow after Ferdinand J a n u s c h k a, who died in l935, I currently receive a monthly pension from l37z.- K. My husband completed the service until his illness and died in active service. After completing the teacher training institute and completing the Einj.-Freiw.-presence service, he had joined the service of the State Railway Directorate in Olomouc in 19906. l9l4 he was drafted for military service, promoted to lieutenant and later lieutenant and distinguished for bravery in front of the fine de. After the war my husband was initially active in Bärn, but had to make room for a younger Czech i.J. lgz2 and was transferred to Rohatetz near Göding. Since there was no German school for our two children who were born at the place of employment, my son Hans was raised by the grandparents in Moravian Neustadt until the end of the 2nd class of Gym- nasial, while my daughter Grete had to go daily to the two-class German elementary school in Göding, which has damaged her health throughout her life. Since the Gödinger school was designed by the Czechs for closure, my husband was pressured to send the child to MC IVA. Because he did not give in to the Czech school, -26/43