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Category: Translation - German
Approval Date: 2/8/2026 3:09 PM
Family Surname:
Country: Luxembourg
Date of Image: 1941

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Please translate this hand-written note related to a train departing Luxembourg with about 180 Jews on the way to Lisbon. Thank you.

Response

2/9/2026 9:44 AM

I have tried to transcribe the part on the lower left. It looks to me as though it begins in mid-sentence. I'm not sure if the characters at the top say "p.m." or "st. n."

besonders nach Mitteilung des Hauptsicherf. Hartmann lag ein vom R[eich] Sich[erheits] H[aupt] Amt gerügtes Vorsehen der in Luxemberg befindlichen Sicherheitssorgane vor. auf telephon. Veranlassung des R. Sicherheits H. Amt sollte die Sache von Luxemberg aus ins Reine gebracht warden das R. Sich. H. Amt stand deshalb in merhfacher telphon. Verbindung seit der in Luxemburg befindlichen Sicherheitsorganen.

Google translation:

According to information from Chief Security Officer Hartmann, there was a procedure in place among the security forces in Luxembourg that had been criticized by the Reich Security Main Office. At the request of the Reich Security Main Office, the matter was to be resolved from Luxembourg. The Reich Security Main Office was therefore in frequent telephone contact with the security forces located in Luxembourg.

2/11/2026 6:42 PM

The part in the upper right is just the ending of a sentence. It is hard enough just to decipher, but to make sense of it without having the beginning of the sentence is impossible. I decipher it as: "des in der Angelegenheit von dort aus Veranlaßten zur Beantwortung des anliegenden Schreibens vom 6. Januar 194? instand zu setzen." I believe that the "des" at the beginning is not the genitive definite article (which does not make sense to me in this context) but the last syllable of a noun that occurred at the end of the first part of the sentence. It's bloated official language that I can't interpret. Google Translate yields: "to repair the matter, which was initiated by those there, to answer the attached letter of January 6, 194?" Microsoft Copilot yields: "to put in order / regularize what was initiated from there in the matter, for the answering of the enclosed letter of 6 January 194?"

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Submitted by Milton J Koch

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