On 31 August 1942, Hanna Steiner was arrested by Police Commissioner Josef Kolář for leaving one window in the office at 7 Široká Street, on the third floor, without a complete blackout, so that "the light was leaking out into the courtyard".
The defect was rectified and Steiner, as head of the office, was asked to report to the local air defense headquarters. There, she was fined and faced jail time if she failed to pay. Commissioner Kolář noted that most of the windows in the "Jewish buildings" were badly blacked out and "none of the guards present want to take responsibility when they report for duty."
Source: Zdroj: NA, PŘ II, 1941 – 1950, sign. S 5678/7, kart. 10944.
All attempts to obtain Palestinian certificates for the Steiners have failed. The last chance was to travel to a third country, Croatia or Serbia, and wait for them to be issued.
Although Chaim Barlas, on behalf of the Zionist organization in Palestine, promised to secure the certificates and the Nazi authorities issued the necessary permits for the trip, Barlas remained silent, or repeated that he did not issue the certificates and could not be blamed for not issuing them.
Hanna Steiner and her husband were deported to Terezín in July 1943 and from there to the Auschitz-Birkenau death camp in October 1944, where they were murdered.