In the residential building Kugelacker 37 lived Leopold (Leo) Popper (*1903 in Vienna). In 1925 he came to Greiz and later also brought his mother Julie Popper (née Knöpfelmacher). In 1931 he married Hildegard (née Gäbelein) and had a daughter with her named Julie. The family moved into the apartment at Hofgartenweg 7.

The bankruptcy of the clothing store M. P. Bluhm Nachfolger left 4 business premises in Marktstraße vacant. Eduard Lippmann and his son Kurt rented the vacated space from the previous owner Alfred Chraplewski / Chraplewsky and opened the shop "Eduard Lippmann und Sohn, Einheitspreis-Kaufhaus" in 1931. From the Greiz population, the department store also called "Wohlwert".

In 1934, Baruch Reisler (*1894) opened a quick-sole establishment in Marktstraße 6. Before December 1937 he gave up his business. In 1938 he and his two sons Arno and Max were deported to Poland, where Baruch and Max Reisler died.

Philipp and Samuel (Sali) Laßmann lived in 1934 in the Marktstra;e 6, where they had moved from their earlier apartment Brückenstra;e 19. After 1934 the brothers emigrated abroad - exact date and place unknown, Flach 1990 (sources) names Sweden and France as possible destinations.

Karl (Chaskel) Wiesenthal founded together with his wife Marie/Mary (Miriam) in 1923 the „Fachgeschgesch füf men's and boys' clothing“ and the shop „Berufsbekleidung Wiesenthal & Co.“. The entrance to the two-story salesrooms was located in Burgstraße. Shortly after Hitler came to power in January 1933 and the April call for a boycott of companies owned by Jews, Mr. Wiesenthal sold the business and emigrated with his family to New York.

In Gera, a Jewish community existed already in the Middle Ages. Jews were first mentioned in the city in 1331: Emperor Ludwig confirmed to the bailiff Heinrich von Gera the rights over the Jews in his territory. The persecution of the Jews during the plague in 1349 also affected the Jews in Gera. One survivor was possibly the Jew Abraham of Gera, mentioned in Erfurt in 1357. 

The Jewish community in Geisa had a cemetery since the second half of the 18th century, which was expanded in 1857. The older part of the cemetery is located on a wooded hand with 27 still recognizable gravestones. The number of burials is assumed with about 200.

A synagogue is verifiable in the first half of the 19th century, but there may already have been a prayer room in the 18th century. The synagogue was located on the Judenhaugk (today on the Schlossberg southwest of the arched gate leading to the Schlossplatz) and was destroyed by fire on June 23, 1858. At that time all the houses around the market place and in the adjacent streets burned down.