the initiative of a courageous member of the SS who arranged for passports at the last minute, he and his wife were able to leave for Zurich, Switzerland on 31 October 1939 after suffering further grave humiliations. During Kristallnacht, in November 1938, the SS seized Pringsheim's maiolica collection from his home in Munich. His world famous collection of majolica was sold in a forced sale by the Nazis at Sotheby's in London in 1939 in exchange for permission to emigrate. Pringsheim's house had to be sold to the Nazi party. It was torn down and replaced by a party administration building. The files of all German Nazi party members were stored there until 1945. Today it houses the Institute of Art History of Munich University (LMU) and the offices of the Munich State Collection of Antiquities, among others entities. Pringsheim died on 25 June 1941 in Zurich. His wife then apparently burned all of the personal effects which had been brought to Switzerland, including the letters from Richard Wagner. She died one year later. Restitution claims Pringheim's heirs have requested that artworks looted by the Nazis and sold in forced sales be returned to the family. Many, though not all, of the looted works were restituted in 1953. In 2008 Pringheim's heirs asked the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Foundation to restitute to them seven pieces of Italian maiolica that the museum had acquired by the collector J.N. Bastert Publications Entehrt. Ausgeplündert. Arisiert: Entrechtung und Enteignung der Juden 2005 Daniel Bernoulli – Versuch einer neuen Theorie der Wertbestimmung von Glücksfällen, 1896 Irrationalzahlen und Konvergenz unendlicher Prozesse, Leipzig 1898 Über Wert und angeblichen Unwert der Mathematik – Address presented at a public meeting of the royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, on the occasion of the 145th Endowment Day on 14 March 1904 Uber Konvergenz und Funktionentheoretischen Charakter Gewisser Limitar-Periodischer Kettenbruche, Munich 1910 Majolica, Leiden 1910 Über den Taylorschen Lehrsatz für Funktionen einer reellen Veränderlichen, offprint of the Royal Academy of Sciences, 1913 Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, Leiden 1914 Vorlesungen über Zahlenlehre – first volume, part 2 (I.2) Unendliche Reihen mit Reellen Gliedern, Leipzig 1916 Über singuläre Punkte gleichmässiger Konvergenz – presented on 6 December 1919 in Munich at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Minutes of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Mathematical-Physical Division; offprint 1919) Grundlagen der allgemeinen Funktionenlehre Vorlesungen über Funktionslehre. Erste Abteilung: Grundlagen der Theorie der analytischen Funktionen einer