Victor Klemperer lived at this address from 1942, September 3 to 1943, October 30
- 1942, August 21, Friday morning – Yesterday morning Eva settled the essentials of our apartment business and at the [suggestion] of Reichenbach (Estreicher’s successor) decided on two rooms on Lothringer Weg in Blasewitz, which are supposed to have all kinds of advantages and disadvantages
- 1942, August 23, Sunday morning – …We have both been swept into the turbulence of the evacuation and of our own move. Eva has been performing great feats. Yesterday she came to an agreement with and through Thomas, the moving company, that we would move to Lothringer Weg on September 3rd
- 1942, August 29, Saturday morning – In Lothringer Weg we are to share the kitchen with Community nurse Ziegler. The woman was here yesterday and made an agreeable impres- sion. She said fear of the Gestapo had become a general Jewish psychosis. The owner of the house — she is over eighty — spends the whole afternoon by the window, waiting “in case ‘they’ come.”
- 1942, August 30, Sunday toward evening – Half past eight. — Eva has just come back from Lothringer Weg — I have not been there yet, much too far for a Jew — she has settled all kinds of things, made preparations, cleared up. The confiscated furniture has been removed.
- 1942, September 4, Friday toward evening – Doubly different from the house in Strehlen: There, an emphatically modern and petit bourgeois garden suburb, sham, cheap elegance with modern fittings and architecture. Here style and taste throughout…
- 1942, September 13, Sunday afternoon – …The Aryan woman will also be ruined. — We used to hear such pieces of news through Katchen Sara (who has already had her first house search in her new apart- ment — which made me feel almost cheerful, because Katchen maintained that Lothringer Weg was “even more exposed” than 41 Altenzeller…
- 1943 April 25, Easter Sunday morning – …the luxuriant splendor on the opposite bank — when I walk to the factory, there are flowers in all the front gardens, on a plot of land below street level on Wormser Strasse, blossoming fruit-tree crowns at eye level, at the edge of the park here at Lothringer Weg a glowing red and delicate cedonia bush — the threat of death ever closer and more suffocating…
- 1943, July 19, Monday morning – …On Sunday afternoon as I was coming from the cemetery, an elderly gentleman — white goatee, about seventy, retired senior civil servant — crossed Lothringer Strasse toward me, held out his hand, and said with a certain solemnity: “I saw your star and I greet you; I condemn this out- lawing of a race, as do many others.”… The chorus of voices of the people. Which voice dominates and will be decisive?
- 1944, November 12, Sunday evening – Yesterday Eva reported something else from Frau Kreisler: There is a fe- male interpreter from the Crimea living with her now; she did or still does duty with the mysterious Moslem labor detachment now quartered at 2 Lothringer Weg. The girl related from her own experience that when the Germans invaded the Crimea, the younger villagers fled.
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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