Zinzendorfstraße

  • 1942, July 13, Monday morning – If it was the most woeful birthday, it was also the most peculiar one. Katchen and I went on foot, Eva took the tram to the Henriettenstift, at about eleven o’clock. For a couple of minutes on the way we thought we were being followed by a young man (Gestapo?), he had overtaken us in a suspicious manner and looked at us, he had taken up position in front of a shop window—only when he finally turned a comer were we reassured. Katchen was the pilot on the forbidden Bügerwiese: only the crossing Lüttichaustrasse/Zinzendorfstrasse is permitted for wearers of the star. **p99
  • 1942, August 16, Sunday afternoon – At the cemetery recently the decent and emaciated Cohn told us he intended to visit on Sunday (today) with his (Aryan) wife. Instead a card came yesterday, he is ill in bed with sciatica. So I felt obliged to go and see him. 9 Zinzendorfstrasse — I had to traverse the dangerous, permitted passage of Bürgerwiese. A huge, old apartment building; first I went in vain up to the top floor at the front—Jews’ apartments only there, but no Cohn. He lives in the back house. Once again up three flights of stairs, here a quite execrable winding stair—but with a view of green parklike gardens. **p123
Zinzendorfstraße 11, Palais Lüttichau
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Source: 

  • ** 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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