Richard and his wife Edith lived at Giesebrechtstr. 17 in Berlin-Charlottenburg prior to emigrating to Holland at the end of 1938. Their son Joachim (b. 1915) and his sister Annemarie (b. 1920) emigrated from Rotterdam to New York in 1939. (Bundesarchiv Gedenkbuch, Gedenkbuch Berlins, New York Passenger Lists, ancestry.com)