Varian Fry
Varian Fry today known as the American Schindler, a reference to Oscar
Schindler, who saved 1200 Jews during the Holocaust.
During World War II this quiet, faintly absent-minded American hero
risked his life to save the heart and soul of Europe during the
Holocaust and helped numerous writers, artists and thinkers escape the
Nazis. One of the great men of the twentieth century, a Scarlet
Pimpernel.
At great personal risk, Varian Fry set up contacts with the French
Resistance and the Corsican mob, hired forgers, bribed border guards,
and he personally escorted Franz Werfel and Heinrich Mann over the
Pyrenees - his rescue efforts made an indelible influence on our
culture.
Schindler, who saved 1200 Jews during the Holocaust.
During World War II this quiet, faintly absent-minded American hero
risked his life to save the heart and soul of Europe during the
Holocaust and helped numerous writers, artists and thinkers escape the
Nazis. One of the great men of the twentieth century, a Scarlet
Pimpernel.
At great personal risk, Varian Fry set up contacts with the French
Resistance and the Corsican mob, hired forgers, bribed border guards,
and he personally escorted Franz Werfel and Heinrich Mann over the
Pyrenees - his rescue efforts made an indelible influence on our
culture.