Comment: Victor Klemperer lives at this address from May 1940 to August 1942 when he moved to 2 Lothringer Weg
- 1940, Jews’ House, 15B Caspar David Friedrich Strasse, May 26, Sunday morning – A handsome villa, too cramped, too “modern” in style, stuffed full of people, who all share the same fate. Wonderfully situated amid greenery.
- Preface 1 – On New Year’s Eve 1941, Victor Klemperer gave a little speech to the remaining occupants of the Jews’ House at 15b Caspar David Friedrich Strasse in Dresden. It had been, he said, “our most dreadful year,
- Preface 2 – On September 2, 1942, on the eve of the move to a second Jews’ House, he writes: “As far as it lies in my power, the Jews’ House at 15b Caspar David Friedrich Strasse and its many victims will be famous.”
- 1942 June 29, Monday morning – A year ago on our wedding anniversary I was in the cells at Dresden po- lice presidium. Very desperate and embittered. But how much better than today things still were for us then. The men of Caspar David Friedrich Strasse were all still here, without the star I could still walk, travel, go to restaurants with Eva,
- 1942 – September 2, half past eleven on Wednesday evening. On a cleared desk – Toward evening at the Marckwalds’ for a while, who really are among the next fifty. They appear composed. He hopes to find his sister in Theresienstadt, but trembles for his morphine. As far as it lies in my power, the Jews’ House at 15b Caspar David Friedrich Strasse and its many victims will be famous.
- Notes
Credit: AltesDresden.de
Quotes:
- **I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945, Victor Klemperer, Publisher : Modern Library; Illustrated edition
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