- 1942, April 19, Sunday – All my shoes are more or less in shreds. The Jewish cobbler at the clothes store has been evacuated. But there is still a Jewish cobbler on Holbeinstrasse; I must walk over to him in the next few days. — Our laundry has not been washed since December. Eva washes a few of the most essential pieces in the bathroom. **p42
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1942, August 10, Monday morning – On Saturday an elderly gentleman, who appeared familiar to me, came to look at the apartment. Not discourteous, greeted us with a “good day.” Elsa Kreidl said this was Head Forester Fritzsche, and Eva, who exchanged a few words with him, recognized him as a brother of the Ministerial Councillor Fritzsche with whom we had exchanged the apartment in Holbeinstrasse for the one in Hohe Strasse. **p118 - 1945, February 21, Wednesday evening – At home we met a shopkeeper from Dresden who had lived through the night of terror on the Wilder Mann without being bombed out and who had left Dresden on Monday. Her relations, the Kuskes (our suppliers, when we lived in Holbeinstrasse), mother and daughter, were dead. There was a dreadful smell of corpses, the authorities estimated 200,000 dead, there was a thin supply of water, no gas, there were no newspapers, instead a leaflet from the Freiheitskampf; which threatens shooting for “everything”; narrow alleyways had been cleared through the rubble, one sees slips of paper put up: I am safe …**p422
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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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