Apartment of the family Moritz and Irene Recher

In 1934/37 Moritz (*1898) and Irene Recher (née Grünberg, *1901) lived at Brückenstra;e 14 with Mrs. Grünberg, Irene's mother. Moritz Recher was a soldier in World War I in 1916 and subsequently spent 25 months as an Italian prisoner of war. The Rechers owned a shoe store in Zwickau and moved to Greiz to open a shoe store there as well. During the November pogrom, Moritz Recher was maltreated and his wife Irene was admitted to the clinic of a Dr. Salzwedel with cuts. Mr. Recher was deported to Buchenwald, but was able to return to Greiz later.
Moritz and Irene wanted to leave Germany, so relatives laid out travel expenses to Cuba for them and Mrs. Grünberg. On May 13, 1939, the ship „St. Louis“ set sail from Hamburg. However, since the ship did not receive permission to dock in Cuba, the voyage ended in Antwerp on June 17, 1939, after about five weeks at sea. From there the Rechers went to England, where Moritz Recher worked in a shoe wholesale business. Thanks to airline tickets sent to them by relatives, the Rechers arrived in New York in 1946. The couple worked in the second largest department store in the city. Mr. Recher worked in this store again as a shoe salesman until his retirement in 1972. In 1982, the Rechers were able to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary before Irene Recher passed away on November 29, 1983.