German to English Social Sciences History

From a letter written in March of 1939 by a Jewish man in Zürich, Switzerland to a friend in London, concerning his family’s difficulty getting from Austria to Switzerland to join him:

“Wie Sie von Herrn X. erfahren werden haben, hatten meine Frau und Tochter große Schwierigkeiten in die Schweiz zu reisen, und kamen doch im letzten Moment, bevor die Unbedenklichkeit ablief, her.”

"As you will have heard from Mr. X., my wife and daughter had great difficulties traveling into Switzerland, but came here at the last moment, before the _________ _______."