English Translation

Secret The Chief Financial Officer bvat Prague XII, 16 May 1942 Silesian Street 9. / Telex 532-41,532-42,532=43. RV - IIb - B - 147/42g2.Ang. It is requested to indicate this trade mark, the date and subject of this letter in the reply. * In the district of the Hauptzollamtslahatschowitz a special attack could be achieved by the careful conduct of a patrol of the customs border protection. On 24.4.1942 four Jews were arrested, who were illegally crossing the border towards Slovakia. In addition, four border dwellers (members of the protectorate) who were supposed to be helpful to the Jews in crossing the border and who were already helping Jews to cross the border could be established. In April 1942, they were sent to the Theresienstadt Labour Camp, which resulted in large sums of money, some of which they wanted to use to pay for the tugs and the rest for illegal export. An amount of about 1o00,- Rl for one person was intended as a wage for the smugglers. Furthermore, the Jews found a number of letters, notebooks, maps and other documents - especially their addresses - which suggest a widely branched human smuggling organization. The arrests were handed over to the Gestapo who arrived on 24 April 1942 with the found ma terial. Representing rouyd To the office of the Secretary of State at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia by Dr. G i e s or representative in the office PragIV Czerninpalais 141