Typed cable draft/copy from Reisebüro Tausig (New York) to Reisebüro Vock (St...

NLT.
Reiseburo Vock
Stuttgart

Betrifft Julius Else Oppenheimer bitte drahtet Schiffsname Abfahrtsda-
tum Linie und ob 300 Dollar bei Nichtreise hierher rueckzahlbar.
Kabeladresse Oceanwave New York

                                    Reiseburo Tausig

This cable draft is the final document in the Julius and Elsa folder, and it captures the meticulous caution of the rescue network even in extremis. Reisebüro Tausig in New York (the same Tausig Service Corporation that filed the original 1939 affidavits — see 0001, connecting the first and last documents in the collection) writes to Reisebüro Vock in Stuttgart requesting concrete details about the proposed passage: ship name, departure date, shipping line, and — critically — whether the $300 deposit is refundable if the trip does not take place. This last question reveals an awareness that the escape might fail. The cable address "Oceanwave" for Tausig's New York office and "NLT" (Night Letter, a cheaper overnight cable rate) suggest this was a follow-up to the urgent Reisebüro Vock cable (0037) and Julius and Elsa's own telegram (0036). Together, documents 0036-0040 trace the final, parallel escape attempts in late 1941: the Cuba visa route via Zaro Tours and the Lisbon passage route via Reisebüro Vock, both racing against the clock as the last avenues for Jewish emigration from Germany were closing. Whether either attempt succeeded — or whether Julius and Elsa Oppenheimer were among the Munich Jews deported beginning November 20, 1941 — is the devastating question that this correspondence leaves unresolved.