Strangers Arrive: Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930-1980

"None of us had the faintest idea where we were going [but] during 1938–39 . . . the town [Christchurch] was made strangely interesting for anyone like myself, [with the] scattered arrival of 'the refugees'. All at once there were people among us who were actually from Vienna, or Chemnitz, or Berlin . . . who knew the work of Schoenberg and Gropius." —Anthony Alpers, 1985
From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial number of forced migrants – refugees from Nazism, displaced people afte...