Between 1933 and 1945, more than 300 Jewish artists took refuge in Britain: painters, sculptors, graphic artists and designers, several with established careers in Germany and Austria. Many were forced to flee after blacklisting by the Reichskulturkammer set up by Joseph Goebbels in 1933. For others, inclusion in the Nazi’s notorious “Degenerate Art Exhibition” of 1937 sealed a professional death warrant. Escape to Britain, however, was no holiday. During the Second World War, the refugees were interned as “enemy aliens”. But for some, internment camp became a home from home. At Hutchinson on the Isle of Man, the main camp for artists, the Expressionist painter Ludwig Meidner found the cultured atmosphere so congenial to work that he applied for an extension