Villa of the Eger family - Wasastrasse 7

Wasastraße 7 – Villa of the Eger family – so-called ‚Judenhaus‘

The Jewish Eger family were forced by the city of Dresden to take in Jewish subtenants in their villa. The house was given the status of a 'Judenhaus' (Nazi jargon).

The so-called 'Judenhäuser' were the last stage of National Socialist exclusion and disenfranchisement of Jewish citizens in the Reich territory before their deportation to the Nazi extermination camps.

The gentlemen's outfitter Robert Eger, born in Dresden in 1893, was arrested during the November pogroms of 1938 and taken to Buchenwald. After his release, he was arrested again on October 15, 1942. He was deported to Auschwitz via the Dresden police prison, where he was murdered on January 1, 1943. His wife Rosa Eger, née Eichmann, born in Fürth in 1868, was murdered in Theresienstadt on December 31, 1942.