Ruta Kesenelenbogen, born in Warsaw in 1925, was deported to Dachau concentration camp from where she was ultimately liberated. While listed as a DP, she registered a dining establishment in Blumenstrasse in September 1945. Her businesspartner was Mieczslaw Reischer, a chemical engineer born in Warsaw in 1915, who had also been liberated from Dachau.

The two married in November 1945 and their daughter Renate was born in Munich. They emigrated to America in 1949.