- 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 was so hard for her, she was remaining behind alone (worker at Zeiss-Ikon); her only sister was arrested in the spring, because she walked across the street without a star and into the arms of the Gestapo, and was then taken from prison to the women’s concentration camp of Ravensberg in Mecklenburg. **p138
- 1942, October 30, Friday morning – Fraulein Imbach, small, swarthy, in her forties, is the loneliest figure in the house. Walking past the sliding window of what is really the ground-floor kitchen, I see her busying herself in the huge room; there she appears especially small and lonely and careworn. Her mother was evacuated recently, one of her sisters was in Ravensbrück women’s camp in Mecklenburg for months, because she had rashly stepped across the road without the star and run into the arms of the Gestapo. **p160
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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