- 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; there—in the smoking room!—the ceiling is covered with portraits, all copies of Old Masters, a famous head in each ceiling panel. Widow Jacoby, in her eighties, with a cane, bent, but intellectually alert, is among those to be evacuated next Monday. **p137 - 1944, May 2, Tuesday evening 8:00 p.m. – yesterday as I left the house at quarter past five, Fraulein Rieger, Rieger’s daughter and Katz’s receptionist, came toward me downstairs and gave me a packet of sandwiches and cake as comfort and thanks. That was nice—but at Neumarkt I was overcome by angina pains, more severe and persistent than ever before. A nitroglycerin capsule did not help at all— the rest of the contents of the box rolled on the ground, I did not grieve for them—and I had to creep along laboriously, step-by-step, halting frequently. I did not feel better until I was some distance down Freiberger Strasse, and as soon as I arrived, all the trouble ceased. **p312
- 1944, May 29, Whitmonday evening – Today I tutored Bernhard Stiihler from eleven until twelve. We had hardly finished when there was the pre-alert and the warning itself. Eva was just eating a meal [in town] and sat in the cellar of Altdresden on Neumarkt. I spent a good hour in [the cellar of] 3 Zeughausstrasse. Everything remained quite calm. The radio, however, reported: “Since seven o’clock this morning large formations over Brunswick, Magdeburg, Brandenburg, northwest Saxony.” So presumably to Berlin and Leipzig. **p320
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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