Marriage and Family
Roth married Friederike (Friedl) Reichler in 1922. In the late 1920s, his wife Friederike became schizophrenic, which threw Roth into a deep crisis both emotionally and financially. She lived for years in sanatorium and was later murdered by the Nazis.
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