All of Dresden’s Jewish residents had to vacate their dwellings by 1 April 1940 and move to one of the buildings designated and marked by the authorities as a “Judenhaus” (Jews’ house). At first there were thirty-seven “Judenhäuser”. The building at Bautzner Straße 20, owned by the Jewish Community, also became a “Judenhaus”.
The residents older than sixty, including Maria and Jacob Baruch, Flora Herz, Margarethe Josky, Berta Katz, Bertha Salinger, Eleonore and August Steinberg, and Louis Schirmer, were deported to Theresienstadt (Terezín) on 25August 1942. The “5th Dresden Transport V/5” deported 50 people by lorry.

Other Jewish residents of Bautzner Straße 20 were forced to work in the production facilities of Zeiss Ikon AG, had to move to the “Judenlager Hellerberg” (“Hellerberg Jews’ Camp”) in November 1942, and were deported from there to Auschwitz in the night from 2 to 3 March 1943. Among them were this building’s residents Icyk Mayer Grossmann, Rita, Ingeborg and Hans-Joachim Teufel as well as Sophie and Peter Wechsler.

There were still eight “Judenhäuser” in Dresden in January 1945.

Marked in 2001