[Nancy] Diana Joyce Croft (31 March 1912 – 14 November 1999) was an English art gallery administrator for the Artists' International Association.
[1] Her father was a war hero and leading xenophobic politician who in 1917 had been a co-founder of the National Party which opposed German influence.
In Tossa de Mar, a small fishing village on the Costa Brava, she met the German emigrant, lawyer and artist, Fred Uhlman.
[1] On 3 September 1936, Fred Uhlman landed in England with no money and unable to speak the language.
[4] They set up home on Downshire Hill, in London's Hampstead and it became a meeting place for refugees and exiles who' had been forced to flee their homeland.
[1] Nine months after the outbreak of the Second World War, her husband, with thousands of other enemy aliens, was, in June 1940, interned by the British Government, in Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man.