- 1942, May 11, Monday – House search in the Güntzstrasse old people’s home. Women between 70 and 85 years of age spat on, placed face to the wall, cold water poured over them from behind, their food, which they had bought on coupons as their weekly ration, taken from them, the filthiest words of abuse **p50
- 1942, July 6, Evening – Katchen reports: The Henriettenstift home, about fifty old women, is being evacuated. So her mother, the indestructible eighty-year-old, must go to Theresienstadt, too; Katchen’s brother has been arrested and is thus a dead man. **p95
- July 13, Monday morning – The Henriettenstift is in Eliasstrasse, now Güntzstrasse by the Johanniskirche — I had never been there. Beautiful Dresden — handsome squares, gardens, the Henriettenstift, an imposing building, also has a large garden. In a fairly gloomy entrance hall: a melee, no space to move, chaos. Tied-up mattresses, trunks, evacuation luggage [ . . . ] piled up everywhere, in between them the to-ing and fro-ing of star-wearing helpers, half the Community seemed to be helping the old ladies. **p99
- July 14, Tuesday toward evening – Katchen had been given police permission to spend the last night with her mother. Yesterday afternoon the old ladies were taken from the Henriettenstift to the Community house, which is fairly close, and passed the night on deck chairs in a room there. At five o’clock they were then put in a truck (benches, canvas stretched over them), a trailer carried their baggage. Katchen says a number of people, Aryans, had watched and expressed their considerable displeasure. **p101
- July 16, Thursday morning – …Seliksohn here yesterday afternoon. He now appears to live in large part from his work as a hairdresser and he goes about it with great eagerness. He did the hair of the whole of the Henriettenstift before they were transported, this coming Monday afternoon he will deal with all the inhabitants of our house… **p102
- 1942, November 13, Friday toward evening – …What will now happen to the remainder of the Jews here, to the mixed marriages, to us? Since strictest isolation of Jews is the aim, we shall not be allowed to live in freedom. It is said that all the mixed marriages are to be herded together in the Community House and the Henriettenstift home. I am very anxious… **p164
Destroyed in February 1945
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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