- 1942, June 19, Friday morning – In the afternoon to the Jewish cemetery with Ida Kreidl, who complained incessantly. One and a half hours: Strehlener Kirche, Reicker Strasse, Rayskistrasse, Grunaer Weg, Grime Wiese (Gusti Wieghardt’s district!), Haenel Claus Strasse, Borsbergstrasse. Dresden is lovely: the dark hills, the abundance of nursery gardens, the magnificent flowers and aromas, the piece of open countryside with the gas works like a stopper in the middle of it. **p81
- 1944, May 9, Tuesday toward evening – Complaint about Stühler’s unruliness. He had a serious argument with Katz and objects to unjust, as he calls it, Sunday duty. Katz at Borsbergstrasse, and the Stühlers here have already spoken in the most indignant terms about the business. Katz and Neumark, responsible to the Gestapo and its slaves, are in the most difficult position, cannot do right by anyone, and the Jews are all incredibly overwrought and embittered. **p313
- 1945, The Destruction of Dresden on February 13 and 14 (Tuesday, Wednesday), 1945, Piskowitz, February 22-24 – Now we wanted to go to Borsbergstrasse, to Katz, partly to make contact, partly because of my eye, but there was rubble and smoky dust everywhere on the streets, everywhere individual houses were still burning. When one building collapsed only a few steps in front of us, naturally raising an incredible amount of dust, we gave up the attempt. Slowly, halting frequently, very exhausted, we went back the way we had come. There the same procession flowed as before. Then we went to the square in front of Zeughausstrasse to see whether any of our people were there. No. 3 Zeughausstrasse was nothing but a heap of rubble, a single pillar of no. **p410
Image credit: AltesDresden.de
Dr Katz had his practice at 14 Borsbergstr., Biography (German), Image credit Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten
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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