on September 16, 1919 Kunst-Auktionshaus G. Adolf Pohl, Hamburg, Lot 74; Artur Menke - Permission was denied for shipment of the family’s art works, so their art collection was packed in boxes, sent to a forwarding agent and confiscated by the Nazis some time after November 11, 1941 when the family fled Hamburg for the United States via Portugal; whereabouts unknown
