# Victor Klemperer - A Jewish diary of life in Nazi time Dresden

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## Pages

- [Map of Dresden](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/): Dresden map with markers, linking Klemperer quotes to historic photographs of how Old Dresden locations looked like before 1945, contrasting them with Street View of modern Dresden.
- [About](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/about/): Does history repeat itself? It is 2026 and I see groups of people being singled out again, blamed for all ills of society, criminalised and turned into easy targets for abuse. As a reminder - there are always choices. Even in a dictatorship acts of kindness and empathy are possible as noted by Klemperer himself.
- [Credits & Links](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/credits-links/): Credits: Most of the historic photographs are coming from www.AltesDreden.de, another private project. AltesDresden.de has been of great help and my first port of call when establishing the present names of the locations, when Street View could not find them. A big thank you to the makers of that website. The Dresden city wiki www.stadtwikidd.de (German)
- [Carola Bridge](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/carola-bridge/): 1944, January 30, Sunday toward evening - In the morning, columns of Hitler Youth marched over the Carola Bridge with drums and music; a parade such as I had previously seen only in films. My thoughts as I watched: If only this were the last time they celebrated January 30! And: How long will it
- [Bürgerwiese 7](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/7-burgerwiese/): Not far from 7 Bürgerwiese, the NSDAP headquarter for Saxony was located at 24 Bürgerwiese 1942, June 2, Tuesday toward evening - I shall list the decrees once and for all: [...] 13) Compulsory surrender of typewriters, 14) of furs and woolen blankets, 15) of bicycles—it is permissible to cycle to work (Sunday outings and
- [Zeughausstrasse 1-3, "Jews' House", Community House](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/1-3-zeughausstrasse-jews-house-community-house/): Victor Klemperer lived at this address from 1943, October 30 to 1945, February 13. The house was destroyed on the night of February 13th. In the chaos he was able to go into hiding and flee to Bavaria.1-3 Zeughausstrasse (now Akademiestrasse) stood to the left, the Old Synagoge stood to the right. In its place
- [Salzgasse/ Zeughausplatz](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/salzgasse-zeughausplatz/): Salzgasse/ Zeughausplatz was renamed to Tzschirnerplatz in 1946 (Source: Stadtwiki Dresden) 1944, January 23, Sunday morning toward eleven o'clock - Yesterday's "free" afternoon ruined by coaling. [ . . . ] To buy coal I borrowed a handcart from the "cart hire" and wood seller on Hasenberg beside the Russian barracks. From there to Hesse
- [Schlageterplatz](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/schlageterplatz/): Schlageterplatz, was named Amalienplatz and later Rathenauplatz before 1933, Rathenauplatz again since 1945 1942, November 19, Thursday morning - Afternoon - At lunchtime today to Schlageterplatz again, this time for a haircut at the Seliksohns'. I was welcomed with the greatest warmth. The Seliksohns clutch at us. Inmates of the house likewise clutched at us
- [Schnorrstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/schnorrstrasse/): Street view not available 1942, July 13, Monday morning - It now took me almost an hour to get to the Glasers'; back through the dangerous bottleneck at Bürgerwiese, in very low spirits, avoiding the area of the railway station and Gestapo headquarters by a detour along Werderstrasse, like a hunted animal. The Glasers live
- [Schulgutstrasse, "Jews' House"](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/schulgutstrasse-jews-house/): Schulgutstrasse was destroyed in the Dresden bombing 1945 1942, August 29, Saturday morning - Another case of psychosis: Dr. Magnus, likewise forced to move, had chosen the most cramped, proletarian rooms in the most proletarian city house in Schulgutstrasse: He thought he would perhaps be safer there than in a better district. Whereupon the Steinitzes
- [Waisenhausstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/waisenhausstrasse/): 1944, December 18, Monday morning - (and later — during the day I shall probably be busy with notes) - Yesterday during her air-raid duty (in the Bohme Fashion House in Waisenhausstrasse) she (Frau Stühler) was again struck by people's obtuseness (the people—that is the insoluble puzzle): A couple of the staff, not entirely uneducated,
- [Victoriastrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/victoriastrasse/): 1942, April 26, Sunday afternoon - Just as much a consolation, almost, is the visit I pay to the new house trustee; the name of the company is Schrapel, that of the owner is Richter, in Victoriastrasse. I had no reason to expect anything but a bloodhound, because as such he has been imposed on
- [Moczinskystrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/moczinskystrasse/): 1942, April 19, Sunday - I had to go to the Investigation Department, which occupies a floor of a tenement block in Moczinskystrasse, corner of Lindengasse. Chief Customs Inspector Otto, who questioned me and then dictated the statement to a typist, was uncommonly nice and at pains to allow me to display myself to the
- [Georgplatz](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/georgplatz/): 1942, April 19, Sunday - Interesting to me was the man's complete cluelessness with respect to the miseries of the Jews. "It isn't far for you to come. Professor, you take the tram from Wasaplatz to Georgsplatz ... Oh, you are not allowed to take the tram?" — During the questioning: "First name?" — "Victor
- [Werderstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/werder-strasse/): Werderstrasse was renamed to Andreas-Schubert-Strasse in 1946. (Source: Stadtwiki Dresden) 1942, April 19, Sunday - What Neumark recently told the Neumanns is of a piece with this civil servant's cluelessness. (He has a furnished room with the Neumanns in Winckelmannstrasse and regularly receives permission from the police to visit his family on the weekends. His
- [Lüttichaustrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/luttichaustrasse/): Lüttichaustrasse was renamed to Hans-Dankner-Strasse in 1962. (Source: Stadtwiki Dresden) 1942, July 13, Monday morning - If it was the most woeful birthday, it was also the most peculiar one. Katchen and I went on foot, Eva took the tram to the Henriettenstift, at about eleven o'clock. For a couple of minutes on the way
- [Grunaer Weg](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/grunaer-weg/): 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
- [Albrecht Palace](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/albrecht-palace/): Street view shows the view from Lothringer Weg (at the back), with Albrechtsberg Palace opposite, on the other side of the Elbe river. 1942 The Second Jews' House: Dresden-Blasewitz 2 Lothringer Weg September 3 September 4, Friday toward evening - … But we look out onto open spaces and the greenery of the other bank
- [Rampische Strasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/rampische-strasse/): Rampische Strasse, Fraukirche church in the background 1942, September 21, Thursday late afternoon - On the LTI. [... ] In Rampische Strasse I saw new banners (big, printed strips of paper) on shop windows and doors: "Our will to live is stronger than our enemies' will to destroy." And (roughly): "Only a strong heart withstands
- [Winckelmannstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/winckelmannstrasse/): Lindenaustrasse, corner Winckelmannstrasse 1942, April 19, Sunday - Interesting to me was the man's complete cluelessness with respect to the miseries of the Jews. "It isn't far for you to come. Professor, you take the tram from Wasaplatz to Georgsplatz . . . Oh, you are not allowed to take the tram?" — During the
- [Hellerberg Camp For Jews](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/hellerberg-camp-for-jews/): Street view showing today's Radeburger Strasse with former camp entrance to the left Preface 2 - On November 23, 1942, 279 Jews, the overwhelming majority of those left in Dresden who were not in mixed marriages or otherwise "privileged," were forced to move to some newly erected barracks at Hellerberg. **pVIII 1942 November 24, Tuesday morning (First frosty
- [Zeiss-Ikon Goehle Plant, labour camp](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/zeiss-ikon-goehle-plant-labour-camp/): Preface 1 - The Zeiss-Ikon plant, in which a large number of the remaining Jews in the city work as forced labor, manages to retain its Jewish workers. Nevertheless, on January 21, 224 Jews from Dresden and nearby towns, including Paul Kreidl, are transported to the Riga ghetto…On November 23, 1942, 279 Jews, the overwhelming
- [Fürstenstrasse/ Fiedlerstraße](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/furstenstrase/): Fürstenstrasse has been renamed to Fetscherstraße after 1945 (source: Stadtwiki Dresden). The cemetery is behind the wall on the left. 1942, June 19, Friday morning - After supper we now always sit for a while with Frau Pick, who is still very weak (and who gets on badly with Ida Kreidl—both complain about the other
- [Privacy & Cookies](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/privacy-policy/): 1) Privacy Who we are Our website address is: http://victor-klemperers-dresden.netE-mail: contact@victor-klemperers-dresden.de How we get the personal information and why we have it Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons: If you email us we will use the name and email address provided
- [Chemnitzer Platz](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/chemnitzer-platz-today-f-c-weiskopf-platz/): Chemnitzer Platz was renamed to F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz after 1953 (Source: Stadtwiki Dresden) 1942, January 12, Monday - [Stopped by Gestapo] ... "Who's going to win the war? You or us?" — "What do you mean?" — "Well, you pray for our defeat every day, don't you? — To Yahweh, or whatever it's called. It's the Jewish War, isn't it.
- [Bismarckstrasse 16, Gestapo](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/16-bismarckstrasse-gestapo-today-bayrische-strase/): Bismarckstrasse was renamed to Bayrische Straße after 1945. (Source: Stadtwiki Dresden) 1942 December 21, Monday midday - Hirschel, who is in Inspector Muller's good books, was summoned to Bismarckstrasse. "You are the one who should be put in a concentration camp for contravening the ban on instruction; I stood up for you, you will only
- [Deutsche Kaiserallee](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/deutsche-kaiserallee/): Deutsche Kaiserallee was renamed to Mendelssohnallee in 1945 (Source: Stadtwiki Dresden) 1943, April 25, Easter Sunday morning – He, Professor Conradi, the half-blind painter Gimpel, whose acquaintance I had already made while shoveling snow, and who now takes my arm on the way home—he lives on Deutsche Kaiserallee—lastly a humpbacked and bad-tempered pharmacist called Bergmann, represent the professions; the
- [Emser allee](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/emser-allee/): 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
- [Fürstenstrasse, Hospital](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/furstenstrasse-hospital/): Fürstenstrasse was renamed to Fetscherstrasse after 1945(source StadtWiki Dresden), the former City Hospital is now part of Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital. 1943, July 24, Saturday midday - Katz is not allowed to treat Eva, but from among the Aryan doctors we would like to have a non-Nazi one, because Eva has to give my
- [Mackensenstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/mackensenstrasse/): Mackensenstrasse was Stephanienstrasse before 1937, and renamed to Pfeifferhannsstraße in 1945 (Source: StadtWiki Dresden) 1943, August 25, Wednesday afternoon - Yesterday I heard new, favorable news about Schlüter. The top boss in Berlin has decided that the liquidation of the factory is to be provisionally deferred for two months and the workforce reduced. …. Admittedly
- [Reichsstrasse 15](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/reichsstrasse-15/): Reichsstrasse was renamed to Fritz-Löffler-Straße after 1945. (Source: Stadtwiki Dresden) 1942, June 16, Tuesday afternoon - This morning to Dr. Simon for treatment. The man both doctor and dentist, almost fifty, a little of the temper and manner of Dr. Isakowitz, but more boastful and garrulous, yet not without an intellect. He still has a
- [Wettiner Strasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/wettiner-strasse/): Wettiner Strasse was renamed to Schweriner Strasse after 1945. (Source: StadtWiki Dresden) 1944, October 8, Sunday morning - The all clear not until half past one. No one knew what had happened. All anyone said was: Around Wettiner Strasse, Postplatz. Now I began to worry about Eva. She could very easily have been at Postplatz.
- [Bismarckplatz](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/bismarckplatz/): Bismarckplatz has been renamed to Friedrich-List-Platz in 1946, the former Bismarckstrasse is now Bayrische Strasse and Strehlener Strasse. (Source: StadtWiki Dresden)Conflicting information about the Gestapo HQ, Klemperer himself locating it at Bismarckplatz and at Bismarckstrasse. As both locations are very close to each other (see historic photo), I believe it could actually be the corner
- [Finkenfangstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/finkenfangstrasse/): Finkenfangstrasse was renamed to Wilhelm-Franke-Straße in 1946 (Source: Stadtwiki Dresden) 1942, October 24, Saturday morninng - Today Eva will get a connection to Finkenfangstrasse and only there get on the bus to Pima. The departure point at the station is too close to the Gestapo building. I continue to have the most serious doubts about
- [Map of Camps](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/map-of-camps/): As more and more Jewish people were deported and Klemperer's circle of friends became smaller and smaller, he mentioned Theresienstadt and Auschwitz more often than any Dresden location. Hence I decided to include the camps in a separate map, including the Dresden Neustadt Station from where the trains left for Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. At times
- [Neue Gasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/neue-gasse/): Neue Gasse no longer exists, it used to be between Rampische Gasse (today Pillnitzer Straße) and Bürgerwiese 1943, October 31, Sunday evening - All week long, Schlüter's struggle, bordering on agony; yesterday, Saturday, a tremendous farewell speech to the Aryans—"our Jewish fellow workers—I can say that, after all, we are all human beings!—will remain another
- [Holbeinstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/holbeinstrasse/): 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
- [Kreuzkirche](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/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
- [Lothringer Weg 2, "Jews' House"](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/2-lothringer-weg/): Victor Klemperer lived at this address from 1942, September 3 to 1943, October 30 1942, August 21, Friday morning - Yesterday morning Eva settled the essentials of our apartment business and at the [suggestion] of Reichenbach (Estreicher's successor) decided on two rooms on Lothringer Weg in Blasewitz, which are supposed to have all kinds of
- [Güntzstraße 24, Henriettenstift, Jewish Old People's home](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/henriettenstift-24-guntzstrase/): 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
- [Fiedlerstrasse, Jewish Cemetery](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/jewish-cemetery/): 1942, May 18, Monday afternoon - Dr. Magnus, the orthopedist with whom I shoveled snow, was stopped on Stübelplatz. A man jumped out of a Gestapo car: "You wretch, why are you walking around here, why aren't you at work? This is the second time we've seen you." And spat in his face. Magnus is
- [Friedrichstadt](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/friedrichstadt/): 1943, March 4, Thursday evening - I inquired about Jacobi. He had been suffering from inflammation of the middle ear for some time; there was no place for a Jew in the hospitals here; he was supposed to travel to Berlin and be operated on in the Jewish Hospital there. Yesterday I learned, that at
- [Caspar David Friedrich Strasse 15b, "Jew's House"](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/15b-caspar-david-friedrich-strasse/): Comment: Victor Klemperer lives at this address from May 1940 to August 1942 when he moved to 2 Lothringer Weg 1940, Jews' House, 15B Caspar David Friedrich Strasse, May 26, Sunday morning - A handsome villa, too cramped, too "modern" in style, stuffed full of people, who all share the same fate. Wonderfully situated amid greenery.
- [Borsbergstrasse 14, Dr. Katz](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/borsbergstrasse/): 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
- [Blumenstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/blumenstrasse/): 1943, January 6, Wednesday midday - I myself am extremely handicapped if I do the shopping. In a bakery I was refused bread, even though the ban refers only to wheat products—obviously because of the salesgirl's fear and stupidity, not because of malice—but it was nevertheless painful for me. I was completely unable to come
- [Bergstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/bergstrasse/): Bergstrasse was named Langemarckstrasse from 1935 to 1946 1942 February 15, Sunday morning - Snow-covered streets unrecognizable. Toward Zschertnitz, past the old brickworks, then straight past the Moreau monument as far as the Elysium, a large inn just at the beginning of Langemarckstrasse, formerly Bergstrasse, in Racknitz. On the way Dr. Friedheim fell twice, once
- [1945, Feb 13th - Deportation Letters](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/1945-february-13th-day-before-deportation-letters/): 1945, February 13th - the day before the allied bombing February 13, Tuesday afternoon, perfect spring weather - Odysseus in Polyphemus's cave. — Yesterday afternoon Neumark had me called over; I had to help him deliver letters this morning. I was quite unsuspecting. In the evening Berger was up here with me for a while,
- [1942 Feb, Snow clearing service](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/1942-feb-snow-clearing-service/): 1942, February 13, Friday evening - At six o'clock a messenger came from the Jewish Community; I had to report at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, in Racknitz, to shovel snow. That is exactly the work at which my heart protests after five minutes. It is to last "until the early afternoon." I also lack boots
- [Walpurgisstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/walpurgisstrasse/): January 16, Tuesday, After eight in the evening - Hurrah, we're still alive! Dresden had a heavy raid for the third time. The alert sounded at 11:30 a.m. I calmly went on reading [...]. At twelve the siren sounded again, I thought for the all clear, but it howled a full-scale warning. Slowly down to
- [Wasaplatz](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/wasaplatz/): Wasaplatz, at the crossing of Wasastrasse and Capar-Daavid-Friedrich-Strasse, in the distance the church towers as seen in the photograph on the right 1942, January 12, Monday - I registered my J-coupons at Wasaplatz; since then I have taken only a very few steps in the open air, have not left this area and shall not
- [Wiener Strasse 85, "Jews' House"](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/wiener-strasse-85-jews-house/): 1942, May 8, Friday midday - I was just coming back from the Marckwalds'; Frau Pick had told me I should pay them a visit; I would be doing a good turn. Villa in Wiener Strasse, close to Strehlen railway station. Divided up among a number of Jews, internal staircase, one reaches the various parties
- [Wilsdruffer Strasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/wilsdruffer-strasse/): 1944, April 12, Wednesday morning - After work, I was at Hahn, the optician, Wilsdruffer Strasse, where Eva had made an appointment for me, by about five o'clock. An elderly gentleman with the Party badge, a full shop. I was thoroughly, almost tenderly examined in a side room. I am getting two pairs of spectacles
- [Wormser Strasse/ Schlüter Factory](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/wormser-strasse-schluter-factory/): 1943, April 18, Sunday morning - Yesterday with the morning post the order to report for labor service from Monday, April 19. I had to go to the Community, where I was told the name of the company: Willy Schluter, 30c Wormser Strasse, working hours from 2:00-10:00 p.m. daily; it was very light work, weighing
- [Zinzendorfstraße](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/zinzendorfstrase/): 1942, July 13, Monday morning - If it was the most woeful birthday, it was also the most peculiar one. Katchen and I went on foot, Eva took the tram to the Henriettenstift, at about eleven o'clock. For a couple of minutes on the way we thought we were being followed by a young man
- [Südhöhe](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/sudhohe/): February 15, Sunday morning - We shouldered shovel and other tools and first marched to the "Little Toll House." There a delivery van was struggling at the entry to the Südhöhe road. We got it free, widened the roadway. As I was shoveling here, I was aware of my heart. Then we marched along Innsbrucker
- [Strehlener Strasse 52, "Jews' House"](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/strehlener-strasse-52-jews-house/): 1942, March 6, Friday - Schein, the clothing-shop man, got on my nerves with his grumbling and his utter laziness. There was a lot of gossip about the Seliksohns — everyone is on top of everyone else in the Jews' House in Strehlener Strasse. — I came home very exhausted with sore hands and feet;
- [Neustadt Station, Deportations](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/neustadt-station-transports-to-auschwitz-and-theresienstadt/): Preface II - In Dresden, the camp at Hellerberg was sealed off early on the morning of February 27, 1943. More Jews from Dresden and from nearby towns were also assembled there. On the evening of March 2, nearly all the inmates, including 293 Dresden Jews, were taken to Dresden-Neustadt station and loaded onto cattle trucks. They reached Auschwitz as
- [Postplatz](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/postplatz/): 1944, October 8, Sunday morning - More antiaircraft fire . . . The all clear not until half past one. No one knew what had happened. All anyone said was: Around Wettiner Strasse, Postplatz. Now I began to worry about Eva. She could very easily have been at Postplatz. (Later it turned out that she
- [Hohe Strasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/hohe-strasse/): Hohe Strasse corner Bayrische Strasse (formerly Bismarckstrasse) 1942, January 12, Monday - As we are walking, he says: "State Police. Do you want to see my ID?" — "Not here." Opposite the station, on the Hohe Strasse side, where I used to park, a big office building between the hotels. So this is the Gestapo
- [Bautzener Strasse 21, "Jews' House"](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/21-bautzener-strasse-jews-house/): 1942, May 29, Friday morning - Today Frau Ida Kreidl must hand over her canary in a pet shop, way, way out on Bautzener Strasse, on foot. Good, that our Muschel rests in peace... Comments As per 1942 May 15th, Jews are no longer allowed to have pets or give them to friends. Jews are not allowed to use
- [Annenstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/annenstrasse/): 1944, October 9, Monday morning after 9 o’clock - Very curious: My first frontline birthday (because during the First World War I was safely at home on every October 9). All kinds of news and rumors mounted up about the attack the day before yesterday. From the Stühlers, the Cohns, from Eva, who had been
- [Theresienstadt](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/theresienstadt/): Preface - After that, the blows come hard and fast: the brutalities of the Gestapo house searches, the step-by-step removal of elderly Jews to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, the suicides of those who prefer to snatch at least death from the Nazis. All this was accompanied by the steady shortening of rations for Jews, the
- [Ravensbruck/ Ravensberg](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/ravensbruck-ravensberg/): 1942, September 6, Sunday midday - Three old women are leaving the house: in addition to the owner and old Frau Eger, there is also Frau Imbach, a friendly, very vigorous (albeit with a bad limp) seventy-year-old. Her daughter, more sickly than Jewish in appearance, told us at breakfast in the kitchen this morning: It
- [Mauthausen](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/mauthausen/): 1942, October 4, Sunday morning - Cohn told us two very depressing pieces of news. A family called Bein, living in the Community house, the woman Aryan, the man, Jew in his fifties, their son eighteen years of age, mixed race but raised as Jewish. Father and son arrested a couple of weeks ago, supposedly
- [Dachau](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/dachau/): During his flight from Dresden to Bavaria, Victor Klemperer stayed at the town of Dachau. Of all his references to Dachau I only included references to the Dachau concentration camp. 1943, September 30, Thursday evening toward seven o'clock - Kretzschmar is good; if his behavior is found out, then we're all in the soup. Kretzschmar's
- [Buchenwald](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/buchenwald/): 1942, March 16, Monday - In the last few days I heard Auschwitz (or something like it), near Konigshütte in Upper Silesia, mentioned as the most dreadful concentration camp. Work in a mine, death within a few days. Komblum, the father of Frau Seliksohn, died there, likewise—not known to me—Stern and Muller, in whose homes
- [Auschwitz](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/auschwitz/): 1942, March 16, Monday - At midday on Friday relatives bring underwear for the prisoners in the police cells. As long as the underwear is accepted and exchanged for used underwear, then the man is at least still there. If the underwear is refused, then he has been transported to a concentration camp. Elsa Kreidl
- [Glacisstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/glacisstrasse/): 1945, May - But as far as our hunger was concerned, we were told, that we would be fed at the refugee camp on Glacisstrasse, but there the rooms were empty, with Russian sentries sleeping on the top floor. So the walk was entirely in vain. Now someone on the street told us there was a
- [Sporergasse 3, "Jews' House"](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/sporergasse-2-jews-house/): 1942, May 7, Thursday lunchtime - From the currency office I went to the only Jewish cobbler, in Sporergasse. The man has to work for all star-wearers and is overwhelmed. He refused to accept more than one pair, as an act of charity it will be ready in four weeks time; in general he requires
- [Altenzeller Strasse 41, "Jews' house"](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/altenzeller-strasse/): The house was severely damaged during the Dresden bombing on February 13th, 1945, and subsequently torn down 1942, April 26, Sunday afternoon - Yesterday an eighty- year-old aunt of Katchen's was beaten in the house in Altenzeller Strasse. The recent interrogation at the Customs Investigation Department is not the end of the matter. I have been summoned to
- [Neumarkt](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/neumarkt/): 1942, The Second Jews' House: Dresden-Blasewitz 2 Lothringer Weg September 3, September 4, Friday toward evening - The owner's name is mentioned with respect: the Jacoby Villa. The man was court jeweler, Elimaier's shop on Neumarkt, very wealthy, had everything executed according to his taste and desire. Nurse Ziegler has the former smoking room downstairs;
- [FreibergerPlatz](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/freibergerplatz/): 1944, October 9, Monday morning after nine o'clock - Very curious: My first frontline birthday (because during the First World War I was safely at home on every October 9). All kinds of news and rumors mounted up about the attack the day before yesterday. From the Stühlers, the Cohns, from Eva, who had been
- [Freiberger Strasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/freiberger-strasse/): 1944, March 4, Saturday morning toward evening - Have I noted the slogan painted in big letters above the Tell chocolate factory in Freiberger Strasse? It must be from the first year of the war, now it appears more than unfortunate: "In this war justice is at last victorious and not happiness!" **p301 1944, May
- [Amalienstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/amalienstrasse/): Amalienstrasse was destroyed during the Dresden bombing, today forms 2 lanes of new St. Petersburger Strasse' 1942, May 3, Sunday afternoon - Last Thursday morning at nine I was questioned at the currency office, Amalienstrasse. Much more brusquely than recently at the customs investigation department. "You were an accessory—you have already admitted knowing of the
- [Chemnitzer Strasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/chemnitzer-strasse/): 1944, October 8, Sunday morning - This time we were really hit. The alert sounded at 11:45 a.m. I was working on my Goring notes and went on writing, Eva was at Frau Winde's (corner of Bamberger and Chemnitzer Strasse). At 12 the air-raid warning. I took Tonio Kroger, a tiny volume (from Steinitz), down to the almost-empty
- [Pillnitzer Strasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/pillnitzer-strasse/): 1942 April 29, Wednesday morning - Another house search, another suicide. A physician, a Dr. Korn, Catholic- Jew, wife Aryan. Pillnitzer Strasse. The Aryan wife was beaten; the husband was supposed to report to the Gestapo next morning. 1944 December 18, Midday, 12:30 - Wild wartime day. We had to fetch broth before midday, because the Monday supplier
- [Münchner Platz/ Strasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/munchner-platz-strasse/): 1942, June 4, Thursday midday - Seliksohn also said that very many Aryans, soldiers and civilians, were being shot "one after the other," in Torgau, in the court building on Münchner Platz, on the rifle ranges on the heath. There was talk of blood pouring into the drains. **p66 1943, January 30, Saturday late afternoon
- [Lothringer Strasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/lothringer-strasse/): 1943, July 19, Monday morning - On Sunday afternoon as I was coming from the cemetery, an elderly gentleman — white goatee, about seventy, retired senior civil servant — crossed Lothringer Strasse toward me, held out his hand, and said with a certain solemnity: "I saw your star and I greet you; I condemn this
- [Lockwitzer Strasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/lockwitzer-strasse/): 1942, August 11, Tuesday toward evening - And in the Marckwalds' library I found only a medley of novels and some editions of the classics, but nothing that was of use to my work. On the other hand I was offered 14 pounds of potatoes; I fetched them today, in very sultry weather, from the
- [Leipziger Strasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/leipziger-strasse/): 1942, February 15, Sunday morning - Yesterday, February 14, the first day clearing snow, from eight till two, but this coming week it will probably last from eight or half past eight until five o'clock, plus a march of one hour there and one hour back. Yesterday left after seven o'clock in the gray of
- [Frauengasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/frauengasse/): 1944, April 29, Saturday morning - On Wednesday, in Frauengasse, a man with a white beard shouted loudly at me: "Jewish dog!" **p309Evening - Like Lang and Rieger I now avoid the main roads and make my way through Kanalgasse, the little bordello street. Doesn't do any good either. See the "Jewish dog" above. And
- [Jagdweg](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/jagdweg/): 1943, November 14, Sunday midday and later - After a short while: "Get off!" — "I've got permission to travel." — "Get off!" I got off and, buying a new ticket, went on with the next tram. The midday journey has been torture for me since then. From one stop to the next I expect
- [Gerokstrasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/gerokstrasse/): 1942, October 29, Thursday toward evening - At the Community I then made an application for three shirts, since mine are literally worn through and hanging in tatters. I called on Reichenbach in his office and on Frau Reichenbach in her sickroom. I walked back along Gerokstrasse and Fiedlerstrasse, again by way of the cemetery,
- [Grunaer Strasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/grunaer-strasse/): May 19, Tuesday toward evening - Muschel ✟. Eva had already made inquiries last week. Someone has taken over the practice of good Dr. Gross (in Grunaer Strasse), who castrated our tomcat and put down Nickelchen, and last year died of a heart attack, aged fifty at most. We hesitated for days. Today news came that
- [The Great Garden](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/the-great-garden/): 1942 March 6, Friday - yesterday morning, snow fell again; very pretty in the gray of dawn was the way the snow stuck to all the trees in the Great Garden, marking every contour. Increasingly cold as we worked, and a strong icy wind blew without letup **p23 1942 March 16, Monday - Threat of prison, which is sometimes
- [Doelzschen, Am Kirschberg 19, Klemperer's House](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/doelzschen-am-kirschberg-19-klemperers-house/): 1942, January 31, Saturday - Since yesterday a new, extremely depressing difficulty: The house in Dolzschen appears, or is finally, lost. Notice of calling in the mortgage on July 1 was received a long time ago, but it would perhaps have been possible nevertheless to ward it off **p10 1942, March 6, Friday - A very icy and snow-clogged
- [Schillerplatz](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/schillerplatz/): 1942, September 28, Tuesday toward evening - Eva appeared, very tired and embittered by town and begging errands and loaded with over 16 pounds of potatoes from Frau Winde. In addition, she brought the news that the little stand at Schillerplatz (which is friendly to Jews) had set aside a hundredweight of potatoes for us.
- [Sachsenplatz](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/sachsenplatz/): 1943, January 14, Thursday afternoon - At the Community at four, was right away chased over to the Police Presidium; after losing my way [in the building] I got the relevant officer as he was about to leave and received, with a growl, a form, which permitted "the Jew Klemperer" to leave the area of
- [Reichenbachstrase](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/reichenbachstrase/): 1942, April 19, Sunday - To Steinitz on Friday afternoon. I had to go there once, so as not to offend him; I did so reluctantly, because he always complains about his sick and hostile wife. She is Aryan and believes that he has brought disaster upon her, but does not want to get a
- [Prager Strasse](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/prager-strasse/): Waisenhausstrasse, view into pedestrian Prager Strasse 1942, March 16, Monday - Standing out from the crowd: a Hungarian Jew, blond, Europeanlooking, with the Hungarian's broken-sounding German. Naturalized, his Aryan wife has a shop for baby clothes on Prager Strasse and is now requesting him as a worker. He tells us that in Hungary the Jewish
- [Pirnaischer Platz](https://victor-klemperers-dresden.net/pirnaischer-platz/): Pirnaischer Platz, towards Wilsdruffer Strasse, Gruaner Strasse to the back 1944, August 9, Wednesday morning - The military bulletin continues to obscure, to conceal, to pass over in silence. But the newspaper reports and articles, etc., are now becoming more plainspoken. (I get to see newspapers only late and irregularly — now from the Cohns,