About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945. Although initially greeted with a mixed reception as "enemy aliens", some of these refugees remained and made a significant impact on multicultral Australia. This book traces the difficult journey of the orchestral performers, virtuoso soloists, singers, conductors and composers who sought refuge on a distant continent. A few were famous artists who toured Australia and stayed, most notably the piano virtuoso Jascha Spivakovsky and the members of the Weintraub Syncopators, one of the most successful jazz bands of the Weimar Republic.