English Translation

1/154a 2. JhetreD taBy health insurance and more than 2O% deducted; so that in the 2 years I received on average 1000 to 1400.-- K monthly for my 5-member family. I could not get anything of this especially in the last years, even the money did not suffice for the rent, coal and food. On August 15, 1939, I decided to take up a better paid post, quit the weapons works and started Urleub until September 30, 1939. On October 1, 1939, at a Prague iron foundry, I was to receive a much better numbered post, after the outbreak of the Polish war, I wasn't accepted in the new post 2 and then searched for another job in vain. "From that time, where I had no income, 20 I stayed back with the rental interest from October to December 1939 and also raised several hundred crowns of debt of food and coal. Up to a part EE 3 of the rent interest I already got from my salary,which I from my new department at the court of the division No. 155 from November 1, 1939 érhalten paid all the students with the soldiers. From the time of my service in the weapons warkens, I still had some smaller amounts to pay, besides all the valuables (gold and silver) from me, my t. 1 Woman and the boy, even wedding rings, in 2 amt, and these things will fall in the next few days, if I did not receive the necessary money for their disbursement 4 . It is a sum of TPTEGE of about loco.-crowns, although the objects have a tenfold value OCEKOUS Moreover, in the last 2 years I have not been able to buy ammo and laundry for the whole family, so that today I am wearing the last suit, which is already very worn off, h and the 3 boys are not better off, I do not want to speak of the woman overheupt, because she does not even have warm shoes, so she can go out with it and who in the persistent cold SI now f st over 3 weeks not outside. In order to be able to pay the gold and silver (herrings, rings, clocks, silver cutlery etc.) from the loan office to Os and for me and the children at least one