Kreuzkirche

  • 1942, March 27, Friday, toward evening  – Yesterday at Dr. Neumark’s, the very Oriental-looking “legal adviser” (i.e., the lawyer authorized for Jews). On Steinitz’s advice, to risk an appeal on the “allowance.” Like Steinitz, I deployed an Aryan and ailing wife. A more important factor turned out to be that I am living not on assets, but on a state pension. Neumark’s opinion was that the allowance of 190M would most likely be increased because of that. — Neumark’s office is by the Kreuzkirche; I had to walk there and back. Neumark, in his early fifties, told me of great resentment in Austria, also expected a speedy end. **p34
  • 1942, May 15, Friday toward evening – Yesterday afternoon to lawyer Neumark, the Jewish “legal adviser” behind Kreuzkirche. At Georgsplatz some packers from Thamm were working. One immediately came toward me holding out his hand. “It is very kind of you to shake my hand” (it is more than kind, it is a dangerous demonstration). “How are you doing?” — “Badly, very badly.” — “Sometime you’ll have to tell me more about it.” He went back to his van. — Neumark advised that we should discuss Eva’s case with Dr. Magnus, perhaps a certificate could somehow be obtained after all. **p52
  • 1942, September 21, Monday toward evening – 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, in the same house as Grete Kronheim, the hysterical daughter of our old friend, who was evacuated. The Leipzigers— the boastful health-board official and his likeable, much younger Aryan wife—also live there now. We saw all these people. **p148
  • 1942, March 14, Sunday morning – My usual errands, which tire me out more and more. Once I got as far as Neumark’s apartment near the Kreuzkirche. Today in quest of books on political economy […]. No luck. After that to the Community. There was talk of the beating that Reichenbach got during the deportation. Via Glaser, Eva, Hirschel, the shortsighted man’s repaired spectacles had been passed to him at the last moment. After that he probably roused the anger of a Gestapo man by carrying his trunk too slowly. **p208
Kreuzkirche, ca 1900
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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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