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Varian Mackey Fry (October 15, 1907 – September 13, 1967) was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
Varian Fry was born in New York City. His parents were Lillian and Arthur Fry, a manager of the Wall Street firm Carlysle and Mellick. The family moved to Ridgewood, New Jersey in 1910. He grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey and enjoyed bird-watching and reading. During World War I, at 9 years of age Fry and friends conducted a fund-raising bazaar for the American Red Cross that included a vaudeville show, ice cream stand and fish pond. He was educated at Hotchkiss School from 1922 to 1924 when he left the school due to hazing rituals. He then attended the Riverdale Country School, graduating in 1926.
An able, multi-lingual student, Fry scored in the top 10% on the entrance exams to Harvard University and, while a Harvard undergraduate, founded Hound & Horn, an influential literary quarterly, in 1927 with Lincoln Kirstein. He was suspended for a prank just before graduation and had to repeat his senior year. Through Kirstein's sister, Mina, he met his future wife, Eileen Avery Hughes, an editor of Atlantic Monthly who was seven years his senior and was educated at Roedean School and Oxford University. They married on June 2, 1931.
Actors: Tony Calabretta (actor), Michael Rudder (actor), Alain Goulem (actor), Walter Massey (actor), Mark Antony Krupa (actor), Tom Rack (actor), Christopher Heyerdahl (actor), Maury Chaykin (actor), William Hurt (actor), Matt Craven (actor), Rémy Girard (actor), Alan Arkin (actor), Noel Burton (actor), Dorothée Berryman (actress), Vlasta Vrana (actor),
Plot: After witnessing the treatment of Jews in Nazi territory made him physically sick, cultured American gentleman Varian Fry starts en emergency rescue commission to raise funds and lobby to help intellectuals and artists, especially Jews, escape from Vichy France -where the Pétain government avoid occupation only by utter collaboration- to the US, and for lack of a better volunteer personally sets out in search of them. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt personally overcomes the reticence of the State Department. In Marseille he finds the people he specifically looked for, such as Marc Chagall, already housed by Harry Bingham, a Jewish US consulate official so he starts screening less obvious candidates and examines with Miriam Davenport and a German social democrat they pass for US clergyman Beamish how some can be rescued legally, others via a clandestine route, while colonel Joubert's State Police is at their trace...
Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, artist, character-name-in-title, nazi, refugee, two-word-title, world-war-twoRita Frost and Marion Percy recount the story of American Hero Varian Fry who saved thousands from the Nazi death camps.
La promenade virtuelle nous emmène en 1940 sur les pas du Comité américain de secours qui découvre pour la 1ere fois le domaine de Castellane et le parc de la Villa Air-Bel. (durée 8mn). Dans les années 40, en zone encore dite « libre » se déroula l'histoire méconnue d'une bastide nommée Air-Bel au milieu du domaine Castellane dans le quartier de la Pomme à Marseille. Son parc et sa villa y hébergèrent les intellectuels et artistes Surréalistes en attente d'un départ vers les Amériques sous la protection d'un journaliste américain, Varian Fry. Aujourd'hui détruite, la Villa a fait l'objet d'une enquête pour une restitution virtuelle des lieux et de son histoire d'exception. http://villaairbel1940.fr/
Varian Fry, America's Oscar Schindler saved over 2,000 refugees from extermination in Vichy, France, 1940-1941. Among them the 20th Century's greatest artists, writers, and intellectuals; including Marc Chagall and Jacques Lipchitz. It is now time to honor Varian Fry with a memorial in Fairfield County, Connecticut where he was schooled, lived, worked, and died.
Trailer for Varian's War (2001), Written and Directed by Lionel Chetwynd. After witnessing the treatment of Jews in Nazi territory made him physically sick, cultured American gentleman Varian Fry starts en emergency rescue commission to raise funds and lobby to help intellectuals and artists, especially Jews, escape from Vichy France.
The Varian Fry Quartett—comprised of four members from the Berliner Philharmoniker—performs Mozart's String Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 458, "Hunt" (I. Allegro vivace assai). This footage was captured on Sunday, November 22 at Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library as part of Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concert series. Learn more: carnegiehall.org/NeighborhoodConcerts Public support for Neighborhood Concerts is provided by Council Member Helen Rosenthal. Varian Fry Quartett ·· Philipp Bohnen, Violin ·· Marlene Ito, Violin ·· Martin von der Nahmer, Viola ·· Rachel Helleur, Cello The Varian Fry Quartett comprises four members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, three of whom played together while studying at the orchestra’s Academy in 2007. The quartet—which gave its first public perform...
The Varian Fry Quartett—comprised of four members from the Berliner Philharmoniker—performs Webern's Five Pieces, Op. 5 (III. Sehr bewegt). This footage was captured on Sunday, November 22 at Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library as part of Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concert series. Learn more: carnegiehall.org/NeighborhoodConcerts Public support for Neighborhood Concerts is provided by Council Member Helen Rosenthal. Varian Fry Quartett ·· Philipp Bohnen, Violin ·· Marlene Ito, Violin ·· Martin von der Nahmer, Viola ·· Rachel Helleur, Cello The Varian Fry Quartett comprises four members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, three of whom played together while studying at the orchestra’s Academy in 2007. The quartet—which gave its first public performance at the Easter Festival in Bade...
When travelling abroad in the continental style
It's my belief one must attempt to be discreet
And subsequently bear in mind your transient position
Allows you a perspective that's unique
Though you'll find your itinerary's a blessing and a curse
Your wanderlust won't let you settle down
And you'll wonder how you ever fathomed that you'd be content
To stay within the city limits of a small midwestern town
Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit
That remains the object of their long relentless quest
The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending
The pursuit you see and never the arrest
Without fear of contradiction bon voyage is always hollered
In conjunction with a handkerchief from shore
By a girl that drives a rambler and furthermore
Is overly concerned that she won't see him anymore
Planes and trains and boats and buses
Characteristically evoke a common attitude of blue
Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport
And the cargo that they're carrying is you
A foreign affair juxtaposed with a stateside
And domestically approved romantic fancy
Is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing