In preparation for emigration, Gerhard had sold the business, including the building, for a to a man from Trier, who sold it on to the major retail chain of Wertheim in 1937, only to be expropriated by the Nazis in 1938.

Günther Wertheim had set up a large chain of deparmetn stores in Berlion but left his own flight from Germany unitl 1939. He was lucky to be able to safely reach the United States, where he became a chicken farmer. Wertheim's granddaughter Mrs. Barbara Principe lives in New Jersey. 

It was after lunch on the fourth day of hearings at the Condado Hotel on the beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when the whole barrel business first came up.

Until then, the June 1943 investigation by a subcommittee of the House Committee on Insular Affairs, as well as a week of testimony in Washington, D.C. had been mostly at the policy and political level, with testimony from leading politicians and government officials.

The hotel was informally known as the Pich-Sachs House

2015 journal article gives flavor of refugee life in postwar London

The pension on Adamson Road was run by two formidable dowager ladies