At the beginning of the year 1942 two executions took place in the space behind the barracks.

Any exchange of letters with the outside world was strictly forbidden for the prisoners in the ghetto. In December 1941, all the prisoners were called for a roll call. The Nazi commander of the ghetto announced that evidence was found of some breaches of the ban. He told the prisoners that should the culprits not confess their guilt, then all the ghetto inmates would be punished collectively. He promised impunity to those who would come forward. Some of the writers of the secret letters gave up to the pressure and confessed.

The promise of impunity was nothing but a trick by the Nazis. On January 10, 1942, nine men who admitted contact with the world outside of the ghetto were hanged, and on February 26, 1942, seven persons were executed for the same "crime". The hanged men were not only the writers of the forbidden letters, there was also a person who had removed the compulsory yellow star from his coat, thinking it was not necessary in the ghetto. The Jews had to wear the star as a visible stigma at all times and everywhere. Other prisoners of the ghetto had to put up the gallows, dig the mass grave and even do the hangman´s job.

Nevertheless, no more prisoners were executed in the Terezín ghetto. As a punishment, transfer to the Gestapo prison at a place called Small Fortress (Malá pevnost) was introduced. A priority inclusion in a transport to the "East” was an alternative. Smaller offences were not sorted out by the Nazis but by the Jewish authorities and the sentenced people were imprisoned right in the ghetto.