She was, in accordance with Hitler's anti-Jewish laws, robbed of her property and forced to pay a Jewish Wealth Tax, or Judenvermögensabgabe,[6] instated under the Nazi regime in 1938.
The tax required German Jews with an annual income over RM 5,000 to pay 20 percent of their assets to the state.
[5] Eisenmann was arrested and sent to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in September 1942 and killed at the Treblinka concentration camp.
[5] Eisenmann's son Günther and grandson Percy Henschel survived Nazi persecution.
It passed through the hands of New York dealers Hugo Perls and the Knoedler gallery before Eugene Thaw bought it around 1968.