 In 1922 Gerassi met Stephania Avdykovych, a Ukrainian, in Berlin and they were married in 1929.In 1931, their son, John "Tito" Gerassi, was born in Paris.Gerassi and his family moved to the United States at the start of World War II and he was hired by Carmelita Hinton, a progressive educator who was the founder and director of the Putney School in Vermont, to teach art at the school.