Varian Mackey Fry (October 15, 1907 – September 13, 1967) was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France from August 1940 to September 1941 that helped 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees, mostly artists and intellectuals, escape from persecution by Nazi Germany during World War II .

Varian Fry was the first American to be named “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem (Israel’s official memorial to Holocaust victims) for risking his life to rescue Jews.

Apr 7, 2023 · Often compared to Oskar Schindler, Varian Fry helped over a thousand refugees escape Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Mary Jayne Gold is the heiress who funded and...

In France, Fry aided anti-Nazi refugees who were in danger of being arrested and turned over to authorities in Nazi Germany. Fry used legal and illegal techniques to help some 2,000 people, including a number of prominent writers and artists, escape France and …

Jan 25, 2023 · In 1940 young journalist Varian Fry led a daring mission to help Jewish refugees and some of the Nazi’s most-wanted escape the Holocaust. Back in 1933, Albert Einstein helped found the organization that became the International Rescue Committee, with the aim of helping people flee Nazi persecution.

Jul 21, 1994 · Varian Fry, a classisit by education who worked in New York as an editor for the Foreign Policy Association, was sent by the Emergency Rescue Committee to France. His job was to reach Marseilles, where many of these refugees were staying, and to …

Mar 22, 2023 · Varian Fry was a 32-year-old journalist from Virginia who had been monitoring the growing threat of the Nazi Party in Germany and Europe when he co-founded the Emergency Rescue Committee. He worked to rally political support for refugee resettlement during a time when many Americans favored a policy of isolation.

Varian Fry was an American journalist who helped anti-Nazi refugees escape from France. Varian Fry was born in New York City on October 15, 1907. He graduated in 1931 with a degree in classics from Harvard University, moved back to New York City, and married Eileen Hughes, an editor at Atlantic Monthly .

Jan 17, 2012 · Varian Fry led the effort to save Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, and thousands of other European intellectuals from the Nazis. Why was he forgotten?

Apr 7, 2023 · Varian Fry Institute (a division of the Chambon Foundation) dedicated to exploring and communicating the American experience of the Holocaust . While the world turned away, Varian Fry led the most determined and successful private American rescue operation of …