| LC control no. | n 80060607 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fry, Varian, 1907-1967 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000083999673 91499080 |
| Associated place | Marseille, France |
| Birth date | 1907-10-15 |
| Death date | 1967-09-13 |
| Place of birth | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Redding (Conn.) |
| Field of activity | World War, 1939-1945--Refugees World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue Righteous Gentiles France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945 |
| Affiliation | Emergency Rescue Committee |
| Profession or occupation | Editors Journalists Teachers |
| Found in | His War in China, c1938: t.p. (Varian Fry) Varian Fry et les candidats à l'exil, c1999: p. 8, etc. (Varian Mackey Fry; b. Oct. 15, 1907; d. Sept. 13, 1967; did relief work with refugee artists in France during World War Two) American National Biography Online, May 28, 2013 (Varian Fry; editor, journalist, and teacher, was born on West 150th Street in Manhattan; formed, with others, the Emergency Rescue Committee, June 25, 1940; responsible for saving some two thousand people from eventual extinction) <http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-03467.html?a=1&f=varian%20fry&g=m&ia=-at&s=20&ib=-bib&d=10&ss=22&q=66> New York times, 1 May 2016: Metropolitan section, page 1 ("The professor has a past," Mr. [Varian] Fry was something of a Raoul Wallenberg for artists: Two thousand men and women, including Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall and André Breton were sheperded to safety [from the Nazis] by Mr. Fry's network.) Wikipedia, 13 May 2017 (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. He was the first American to be recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations", an honorific given by the State of Israel to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian_Fry> |
| Associated language | eng |
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