Bechstein grand piano

[...]; date unknown, no later than June 1938–5 December 1939, owned by Arthur and Irene Barasch, Berlin; 5 December 1939–5 July 1962, owned by Franz Großmann; 5 July 1962–17 September 1988, owned by Gerhard Grossmann; 17 September 1988 to summer 2007 at the earliest, owned by Margarete Heinze; [...]
On 21 June 1938, Philo Wuest estimated the age of Arthur and Irene Barasch's Bechstein grand piano, which was located in the music room of their villa at Wissmannstraße 11 (now Baraschstraße), to be approximately 30 years old and its value to be 400 RM. According to statements made by Luise Haertel, Arthur Barasch's secretary, during the restitution proceedings, Barasch sold his property (the partially inventoried villa, garden house and garden) to cover, among other things, a foreign exchange penalty, the Reich Flight Tax and the Jewish Property Tax for his wife Irene, who was in Italy, as well as living expenses. The sale took place on 5 December 1939 to Franz Großmann. After his death, his son Gerhard (born 22 November 1913, died 17 September 1988) inherited the property. After his death, it passed into the ownership of his wife Margarete Heinze (born 3 September 1922, died 1 June 2009). The white Bechstein grand piano was last seen in the summer of 2007 in the ‘music salon’ on the bel étage of the villa. Werner Barasch, the son of Arthur and Irene, mentions the Bechstein grand piano in his 2001 autobiography Entronnen, Autobiografische Skizze von 1938 bis 1946 (Escaped: Autobiographical Sketch from 1938 to 1946) and in an interview in San Francisco on 14 November 2001 as part of The Bay Area Holocaust Survivor Oral History Project. The villa and garden house were sold in 2007. The current whereabouts of the object are unknown.