English Translation

1a he was transferred to Rzikowitz near Prerau, which meant that my daughter had to make the much further way to the German school in Prerau so that she usually did not even come to a warm lunch. In order to ensure both children continued German education, we moved to Olomouc. This was the beginning of the path of suffering for my husband, who had to travel every day to and from Rzikowitz's place of duty from 30 km and after further transfer to Nesamislitz from 40 km. He drove away every year already in the early morning hours and took a heavy joint rheumatism with heart defects, which also led to his present death. In addition, until his death, my husband, s.i. up to the age of 50, had to do the strenuous transport service, which stopped with most Czechs in much younger years, because they received leading positions. Likewise, my man had been permanently reset down due to his German consciousness. Although he could not be excluded from the automatic advance due to his good qualifications, he was deliberately passed over to the station board again and again during the promotion, as he had been declared politically unreliable as a German. This was expressly communicated to my husband at the time by Erwin G r ö g e r , who, as chairman of the German Railway Association, was working for him, at the Railway Directorate in Brno. I assume that this should emerge from my husband's qualification list . .S Dear Secretary of State! On the basis of the facts described, I consider the decision of the Ministry of Transport and Technology to be a serious wrong and misjudgment, because in fact, as a widow of Ferdinand Januschka's senior associate, who has been resettled solely because of his Germanism, I am dependent on this miserable pension of 137 RM. I am convinced that it is difficult for the whole Protectorate to live a widow after a Czech railway official of the same length of service - 29 years -, qualifications and training that would be as poorly placed as I am. I was hoping that with the liberation from the Czech arbitrariness C RO