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 began to waver and perhaps instead of moving to Altenzeller Strasse will also move to Schulgutstrasse. The trustee of our house, Frau Ziegler told us, had been summoned to the Gestapo for being too friendly to Jews. At his declaration that the people were decent, he was told there were no decent Jews and the “whole race was going to be exterminated.” **p134
- 1942, September 12, Saturday afternoon – Magnus and Steinitz have already been working together for months, and for a week now they have been living in the same apartment, sharing the same kitchen in wretched Schulgutstrasse. They get on badly, and their wives do not get on at all. Magnus told me with great matter-offactness: “My wife has declared that she is prepared for suicide at any moment, if that is what I wish. But I shall wait and see and not give up hope completely.” **p144
- 1943. January 27, Wednesday, toward evening – On the way back went to Schulgutstrasse to see Steinitz and Magnus. Bad for me that they live next door to one another. Thanks to my influence they are once again reconciled as card players, but the jealous tension has of course remained, and I have to maneuver between the two. I cadged a couple of potatoes from Magnus … **p193
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List of “Jews’ Houses” and their inhabitants (German)
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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