“Esteemed Mr Mayer,
The relevant authorities have officially allowed me to carry out international work, which particularly relates to the labour camps in Sereď, Nováky and Vyhne.
The situation in the camps is most satisfactory. The number of residents is c. 2,000 people. Apart from children and a few elderlies, everyone works the full 8 – 9 hours a day in workshops established in the different labour camps. Products from the workshops (gentlemen’s clothing, furniture, carpentry products, luxury leather goods, toys, underwear, hats and soft hats, cardboard products, etc.) are supplied to major companies in Slovakia and, in part, similarly to furniture, to the administration of national spas and construction cooperatives. In line with the current enlargement of the camps, the workshops continue to grow and are perfectly run, what has been noted during an audit by the highest non-Jewish authorities.
As the findings indicate, life of the remaining Jewish population will keep concentrating in the labour camps. That attaches great importance to the camps, not merely in terms of deportations, but also in respect to the future coexistence of local Jews in its full extent and merit.”
Letter to Sally Mayer, 1 November 1942