The house was severely damaged during the Dresden bombing on February 13th, 1945, and subsequently torn down
- 1942, April 26, Sunday afternoon – Yesterday an eighty- year-old aunt of Katchen’s was beaten in the house in Altenzeller Strasse. The recent interrogation at the Customs Investigation Department is not the end of the matter. I have been summoned to the currency office on Thursday; for all my innocence I shall end up with a fine. Latest decree: Jews are not allowed to stand in queues.
- 1942 April 28, Tuesday – On the day after a house search there are suicides. We heard of the new case at the same time as the Hitler speech. A couple called Feuerstein, living in Altenzeller Strasse, had been pillaged, then summoned to the Gestapo and beaten and kicked there; during the night the people were found dead in their gas-filled kitchen. — From day to day I wait for the house search to take place here…
- 1942, July 19, Sunday evening – In the afternoon to the Kronheims, who now live in Altenzeller Strasse, and whom we recently, after a long time, saw at Friedheim’s burial. They wrote on Eva’s sixtieth birthday and urged us to visit them. The woman has shrunk away to nothing after serious ill-treatment and, threatened with Theresienstadt, is now contemplating suicide (I said. Veronal should now be called “Jewish drops”).
- 1942, August 8, Saturday midday – Then a younger man, unfamiliar to me — always this coming and going — he likewise emaciated. — From here to “no. 41” [Altenzeller Strasse], where we were the Kronheims’ guests a few weeks ago. A hallway, like a room on stage, a very untidy one […]. An elderly man opened the door for me, it turned out that Frau Kronheim was not home…
- 1942, August 22, Saturday morning – … a thunderstorm yesterday brought cooler weather. Toward evening I was caught in the downpour and was soaked through. First I was with the Kronheims at 41 Altenzeller Strasse for a few minutes. This time they were both at home, packing. The mother, who must go to Theresienstadt on Tuesday,
- 1942, August 29, Saturday morning – …the Steinitzes began to waver and perhaps instead of moving to Altenzeller Strasse will also move to Schulgutstrasse. The trustee of our house, Frau Ziegler told us, had been summoned to the Gestapo for being too friendly to Jews.
- 1942, September 13, Sunday afternoon – Katchen Sara (who has already had her first house search in her new apartment — which made me feel almost cheerful, because Katchen maintained that Lothringer Weg was “even more exposed” than 41 Altenzeller, such are our quarrels over precedence
- 1942, September 21, Monday toward evening – Today is Yom Kippur […] From the Neumanns’ (by the Kreuzkirche in the same apartment as Neumark, the lawyer) I had to continue my tramp to 42 Altenzeller Strasse, where Katchen Sara had invited us. She now resides in two magnificent huge rooms with Frau Aronade
Credit: AltesDresden.de
Citation:
- **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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