Apartment of the Baruch Reisler family (1937-1938)

In 1937, the Reisler family (father Baruch and his children Max, Erna and Arno) moved from Marktstra;e 6 to Wilhelm-Frick-Stra;e 7.
On 28. October 1938, Baruch Reisler and his sons were unexpectedly forcibly expelled from Jena and deported to Poland as part of the "Polenaktion" - it is unknown whether they had previously moved from Greiz to Jena or whether they were deported from üover Jena. The Hitler government wanted to get rid of the Jewish people of Polish origin before their Polish citizenship expired. Erna Reisler (*13 May 1912) had been able to obtain entry papers to the USA, probably some time before October 28. Thanks to these papers, she first reached Pittsburgh, where she met her future husband Ludwig Hahn. Baruch Reisler and his sons arrived at the reception camp in Bentschen on October 29, 1938, from where Max Reisler (born March 5, 1910), a trained salesman, moved with his father to Posen. On August 27, 1940, the two of them arrived in Baranow and perished - cf. Flach 1990 (sources) - in the East. Arno Reisler (*21 July 1918), who had learned the bricklayer's trade, left for Stanislaw in November 1938. He survived the hardships of the Second World War and worked in northern port cities. He also helped survivors of concentration camps in Bavaria and Austria to leave illegally for Palestine. At the urging of his sister Erna, who was now living in New York, he moved in with her. There he worked in construction and later became an employer himself. In August 1976 he succumbed to cardiac arrest, leaving behind a wife and two children (Martin and Barry). Erna Reisler († March 09, 1996 in Miami) and Ludwig Hahn had a son (Elliot).