Officials of the Protectorate's Jewish communities had to continue to follow the orders and commands of the Gestapo and other German authorities that organized the gradual deportation of all people identified as Jews, whatever their religion was. They organized further transports, rented deportation centers, and took inventory of the property of the deportees before handing it over to new non-Jewish owners.
During 1942, transports marked Bh, Bi, Bl, Bm were dispatched from Ostrava, followed by smaller transports Df and Ae 6. In total, 3574 people were deported from the city and its surroundings. Only 257 of them lived to see the liberation.
A photo from Gerda Pavlíková's interview for the USC Shoah Foundation shows the transport numbers that both she and her husband had attached to their clothing when they were deported from Ostrava.