Werderstrasse

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 wife (Aryan), with his son from a first marriage (Aryan), lives in Werderstrasse. His stepson has taken over the parents’ apartment there in his name.) So an Aryan, who was not a Nazi, not anti-Semitic, said to Neumark: “America’s entry into the war must really have given the Jews a great lift; I now see many more Jews on the streets than before, they have the confidence to go out again.” Neumark retorted that the Jews were more frequently to be seen on the streets because they were forbidden to take the tram. The man was completely unaware of this. **p41 
  • 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 in an eccentric-looking house (a little colonial in style) at 23 Bergstrasse, close to Schnorrstrasse. There at one, and received by Frau Glaser who was extremely friendly. He was expected in the next half hour, but did not come until three. She had been used to his complete unpredictability for decades, she said with resigned admiration. **p100
  • 1945, February 13, Tuesday afternoon, perfect spring weather –  29 Werderstrasse was also a very shabby house. Women on the stairs told me that Frau Tenor was not at home, but I should call on her friend right at the top. A sickly, almost delicate-looking young woman in a very wretched attic room. She spoke very anxiously, her friend had always feared this, would commit suicide. I urgently preached courage, she should keep her friend’s spirits up. — At 52 Strehlener Strasse, where we had frequently visited the Reichenbachs and the Seliksohns, I had to deliver the letter to a Frau Dr. Wiese.  **p405
Andreas-Schubert-Strasse 21 (Werderstrasse 21), 1918
Image Credit: AltesDresden.de

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  • ** 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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