Dr. jur. Erich Wohrizek was born in Leipzig in 1878 and was a lawyer and notary in Leipzig. He was a member of the board of the Leipzig Israelite religious community and a board member of the orphanage of the local " Bnei Brith "lodge. In 1939 he was an employee of the Paltreu ( Palästina-Treuhandstelle zur Beratung deutscher Juden G. m. b. H.“ ) Berlin. In 1942, Dr. Erich Wohrizek was deported to the East and met his death there.

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.

Since 1934 Baruch Reisler (*18. August 1894 in Bolechiw [pol.: Bolechów, engl.: Bolechau]) lived with his three children Max (*05. März 1910), Erna (*13. May 1912) and Arno (*21. July 1919) in the Marktstra;e 6.
After the death of Mrs. Reisler the family moved from Gera to Greiz, where already the related family Wiesenthal lived. Baruch Reisler opened a fast-soled establishment in the Marktstra;e 6.

The Wiesenthal family lived at Brückerstraße 10/12 in the 1920s. This included the father Karl (Chaskel) Wiesenthal, his wife Marie (Miriam, *1898) and their joint children Josef (*1923), Hella (*1924) and Lily (*1932).

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.