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A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry
"Fry was the American Schindler...with desperate exiles, menacing Nazis, forged documents and midnight escapes...[think] Casablanca."--New York Times
Varian Fry, the only American honored at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, was a young New Yorker who rescued more than 1,500 Europeans from the Nazi's including Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Hannah Arendt, and other intell
...morePaperback, 388 pages
Published
May 20th 2005
by Backinprint.com
(first published October 30th 2001)
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This book was very informative and inspiring. It is refeshing to know that there were Americans who did care about what was going on in France during the Nazi occupation, and that they reflected the disgust that most Americans held for Nazi ideology. I didn't know that Varian helped people like Marc Chagall and the author of The Song of Bernadette escape. I love all of the stories of the French Resistance, and their involvement with Fry's Rescue Aid Society makes his story even more compelling.
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I remarkable book about a very curious individual, who took upon himself to save thousands of jews stranded in Vichy Marseille leading them to escape France through Spain and Portugal. An eye opener for both the American and French attitudes to refugees during this period.
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