Paul Huldschinsky was a Jewish-German architect, film art direction and production artist. After imprisonment in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938 he fled Nazi Germany in 1939 for California where he continued as an architect and then moved into the film industry. He worked on such films as Gaslight (1944) and Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). He designed about Thomas Mann's Villa in Pacific Palisades. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction.