Finale

Once the Europa Plan fell through, so did Gisi’s hope to help the Theresienstadt children’s transport: it was sent straight to the gas chambers. For her clandestine cooperation with the wife of the high ranking civil servant Izidor Koso, Gisi Fleischmann ended up in jail in Bratislava at the end of 194 and was also briefly jailed in the town of Ilava. The Jewish Council was branded the place of espionage that reached to the highest state ranks. The Jewish Council eventually managed to get Gisi freed; she was offered to emigrate immediately. She refused. She carried on her work, for she knew that only a handful of people had been able to help. After the break out of the Slovak National Uprising (29 August), Germans arrived in Slovakia in the Autumn of 1944. The adviser on Jewish affairs, Dieter Wisliceny was replaced by Alois Brunner. Gisi Fleischmann tried to negotiate with him, unaware that he was planning the second wave of deportations from Slovakia. After the great “hunt” on Jews on the night of 28 September 1944, Gisi still tried to help directly at The Jewish Council. She was eventually deported to Sereď and, on 17 October 1944, to Auschwitz. Her cart was allegedly marked “Return undesired”. It remains unknown how she actually ended.