Varian Fry
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Varian Mackey Fry (October 15 1907 – September 13 1967) was an American journalist who ran the Emergency Rescue Committee in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
Among those Fry aided were the following:
- Hannah Arendt
- André Breton
- Marc Chagall
- Max Ernst
- Lion Feuchtwanger
- Heinz Jolles
- Wilfredo Lam
- Wanda Landowska
- Jacques Lipchitz
- Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel
- Andre Masson
- Otto Meyerhoff
- Marcel Duchamp
- Franz Werfel
- Heinrich Mann
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