Salvendy traveled abroad quite extensively in the pre-war years and, in the 1930s, paid a lengthy visit to Cornwall, where she befriended the Adams family who were also artists and musicians.

There is a suggestion that she may have been interred on the Isle of Man as an 'enemy alien' but if so it could not have been for long, as she appeared in the 1939 Register living in Mousehole, Cornwall, and was holding an exhibition of her work in Bradford as early as May 1940.

The London Gazette edition for November 1947 listed Salvendy as one of the 'aliens' who had been granted Certificates of Naturalisation, with her address being given as Maldron in Cornwall.

Her ashes were interred at Malvern Wells cemetery, and a simple stone memorial includes scripture from Psalm 63 - 'My soul thirsts for God.

[8] In 2020 the Ben Uri Research Unit in London published Czech Routes to Britain in which Frieda Salvendy is given prominence.

She exhibited with Ben Uri in 1945 and 1946, and the book explains how “her reputation is currently undergoing a reassessment.” In December 2021, a plaque was installed on the outer wall of the care home where she died, in Court Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, by Martin Sugarman of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation U.K.