Strehlener Strasse 52, “Jews’ House”

  • 1942, March 6, Friday – Schein, the clothing-shop man, got on my nerves with his grumbling and his utter laziness. There was a lot of gossip about the Seliksohns — everyone is on top of everyone else in the Jews’ House in Strehlener Strasse. — I came home very exhausted with sore hands and feet; I feel very fatigued today. **p24
  • 1942, March 16, Monday – So, yesterday afternoon in the Jews’ House in Strehlener Strasse. A notice on every door: “Here resided the Jew Weiler …” — “Here resided the Jewess …” These are the people who have been evacuated, whose household goods have been sealed up and are gradually being removed.  **p29
  • 1942, April 7, Tuesday morning – Yesterday, Easter Monday, not out of the house; the rest of the Easter reckoning reached us nevertheless — via Katchen: another two suicides in the Turmeck [Jews’ House], which was ravaged recently (the fifth and sixth there); dreadful house search in the Judenburg, the big, Jewish tenement block on Strehlener Strasse, where we have visited the Reichenbachs, the Seliksohns, the Aufrichtigs. The Gestapo turned up there, 15 strong, on Thursday or Saturday, at any rate at five o’clock on the day before a holiday, at a moment therefore when everyone had bought their provisions. They took away all the provisions (ration-coupon provisions!), fats, meat, vegetables, they found. **p37
  • 1942, May 23, Saturday afternoon – On Strehlener Strasse a passerby shouted at me: “What are you Jews doing with those cases?” At the entrance to the building a couple of Gestapo officers (truly officers) shouted: “You Moishe rascals!” The second load did not get there until nine, the first admittedly at half past seven. Still: I feared the worst for having failed to meet the time limit. **p58
  • 1945, February 13, Tuesday afternoon, perfect spring weather – At 52 Strehlener Strasse, where we had frequently visited the Reichenbachs and the Seliksohns, I had to deliver the letter to a Frau Dr. Wiese. Instead of her the door was opened by an imposing matron in trousers, a Frau Schwarzbaum. She told me, and I remembered the case, that the previous year, her own husband, together with Imbach, had committed suicide (cf. the diary of Lothringer Weg), in order to escape arrest by the Gestapo. **p406
Strehlener Str 53, 1907
Credit: AltesDresden.de

List of “Jews’ Houses” and their inhabitants (German)

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  • ** 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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