Emser Allee was renamed to Goetheallee in 1949 (source: Stadtwiki Dresden). Street view showing the corner Emser Allee, Pfotenhauerstrasse
- 1942, September 9, Wednesday early morning – Yesterday tiring long walk into town (Emser Allee, Pfotenhauerstrasse with the hospitals, beginning of the city center—I am gradually getting to know the geography of our new accommodation; I am now, after twenty-two years, gradually getting to know Dresden), to the bank and to the Neumanns, who are now living with Neumark, the lawyer, and will probably have to go to Theresienstadt in two weeks.. **p142
- 1942, October 5, Monday afternoon –Recently in Emser Allee! Two big Hitler Youths overtake from behind on their bicycles; they are joking with one another, laughing loudly, shouting something—I don’t even think that I am intended; they could have seen the star only by looking around. Immediately afterward cycling in the opposite direction, a worker aged about twenty; he leans over to me with a friendly smile: “You mustn’t take any notice of that!” I nodded to him. **p151
- 1942, October 29, Thursday toward evening – The real tribulation of yesterday and the one that filled the day was the hauling up of four hundredweight of potatoes. At lunchtime I went to see if our trader at the tram depot on Emser Allee had a promising stock. Yes— so I was back there just after three. Could they reserve a couple of sacks for me, I would see if I could get hold of a handcart before four o’clock, possibly I would not come back until the next day. — Reservation, even against payment, was strictly forbidden; **p159
- 1943, January 30, Saturday late afternoon – For me, today, the anniversary of the “seizure of power” was wholly a potato day. The weather is mild, and there are again whole hundredweights; we can have another three hundredweight until the end of July (till the end of July!), and with a lot of effort I got two hundredweight here. Two journeys with the handcart from the stall at the beginning of Emser Allee. The sack was not tied; after two steps the potatoes rolled onto the ground. I picked them up and knotted the sack with my handkerchief. **p197
- 1943, May 14, Friday morning – Kahane was the sixth to be arrested, the seventh man was Imbach, the remnants of whose family we got to know as our fellow lodgers—the mother was sent to Theresienstadt, one daughter lived here alone, until she was deported to Poland, another daughter died in Auschwitz during our time; we occasionally met the married brother; he lived on Emser Allee —so this seventh man, in a mixed marriage, was summoned to the Gestapo for yesterday, he did not go and has disappeared. **p229
- 1943, October 14, Thursday morning and later –We shall move to 1 Zeughausstrasse on October 30. Eva saw the rooms and conducted the negotiations. The steam heating is not on here and I am freezing beyond all measure; on my icy way to work early this morning I saw hoarfrost under a bright, silvery, full moon and silvery mist. (On the way back, in Emser Allee, where I always pick up a few chestnuts for the Eisenmann children, I found 26 chestnuts.) Our rooms in Zeughausstrasse are supposed to be south facing and sunny and to be heated by a stove; **p269
Image Credit: AltesDresden.de
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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