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Gallery mounts exhibit on Varian Fry and
his team of rescuers, who helped save some
of the greatest intellects of the 20th century.

SUZANNE CHESSLER

Special to the Jewish News

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any great artistic and literary works of the 20th century

may have been only a dream without the courageous
acts of Varian Fry and a group of Nazi resisters he organ-
_
ized in France during World War II.
The paintings of Marc Chagall, the sculptural forms of Jacques
Lipchitz and the writing of Hannah Arendt, as examples, reached
worldwide audiences because this American hero and his brave asso-
ciates found ways to help intellectuals escape annihilation.
"Assignment Rescue: The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency
Rescue Committee," an exhibit in pictures and text, gives insight into
the triumphs of this underground network and will be on view through
June 27 at the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery in West Bloomfield.

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"The people he saved were the people he thought were in the most
danger," says Sheila Isenberg, author of the Fry biography A Hero of

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"The exhibit provides the artifacts, the actual pieces of reality used
in the Fry operation. My book goes into the operation in great
depth as well as the entire arc of his life."
The documentary exhibit, organized by the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and now trav-
eling across the country, calls attention to
Fry as the first American honored by Israel as
Top: Varian Fry in
a "Righteous Gentile."
Marseilles, 1941.
Programs that enhance the objects on view
Middle: Fry,
include a speech by Isenberg 8 p.m.
right, and his
Wednesday, May 8.
assistant Miriam
"I will talk about how Fry acted on his
Davenport work
ideals and how one man can make a differ-
late into the night
ence," says Isenberg, who chanced on the
in the Marseilles
topic through scholarly research her daughter
ce on the
had been doing. "About 15,000 people
rue Gignan.
walked through his office, and he had to
American-born
decide which ones to save."
Miriam Davenport
Isenberg, who worked on her book for nearly
Ebel lived in
four years, talked to the surviving people who
Michigan for 30
assisted Fry, individuals saved by him and sur-
years before her
viving spouses, children and grandchildren.
19.99 death.

Michigan Rescuer

Fry, an American journalist, began his one-
year mission in 1940 after Germany invaded
France. He was sent to Marseilles by a private
American organization, the Emergency Rescue
Committee, and established the American Relief

Bottom: Marc
Chagall was
at work on this
painting when Fry
arrived to explain
escape plans.