Otto Beer was born in 1892 in St. Ingbert. Around 1920, he and his brother Ernst took over the Garelly hardware store in Saarbrücken. On the evening of January 13, 1935, after the Saar referendum, he fled with his wife and four children to Paris. In February 1937, the family successfully emigrated to the United States. Otto Beer died in Boston on April 26, 1973.
Lucy Karoline Homburger was born in 1898 in Karlsruhe. She married Otto Beer in 1920, and they had four children. The entire family fled on January 13, 1935, first to Paris, then emigrated to the U.S. in 1937. Lucy died in Boston on June 3, 1957.
