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Center, where he used all kinds of intrigue
to get nearly 2,000 people out of France.
Fry, allotted only $3,000 to complete
his goals, was able to tap into black-mar-
ket funds and recommend secret moun-
tain passages and sea routes. Forged doc-
uments, some made by an Austrian car-
toonist, were important resources.
One of Fry's assistants, the late
Miriam Davenport Ebel, lived in
Michigan for 30 years after her hus-
band, Charles Ebel, accepted a teach-
ing position at Central Michigan
University. While Ebel admires his
wife's strength, his knowledge of her
activities comes second-hand through
their conversations.
"My wife was a student in Marseilles
when she met Varian Fry," says Ebel,
who teaches Greek and Roman history.
"She was trapped there and was very
pleased that she was able to be part of
this operation. She also was pleased that
attention finally was coming to [Fry]
even though it was after his death."
Isenberg, who teaches journalism at
Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,
and has been an investigative reporter,
interviewed Miriam Davenport Ebel,
who died in 1999, and references the
refugees outside the artistic community
Fry vas able to save.
He made arrangements to help some
of Hitler's detractors, such as publishers
and union leaders, who spoke out
against Nazism.
Special Programs
Some of the information presented by
Isenberg comes from archival sources,
including Fry's own papers at
Columbia University.
These materials give deeper insight
into how Fry could do his work when
he was 32, go against the governmental
objections he confronted and start his
memoirs, left unfinished some 25 years
later without his having a clue that
recognition would come after his death.
"I stayed because the refugees needed
me," he wrote. "It took courage, and
courage is a quality that I hadn't previ-
ously been sure I possessed."
In addition to Isenberg's talk this
Wednesday, Esther Tarnoff Cooper will
elaborate on the material in the exhibit.
A local authority on Jewish art, she will
provide a slide presentation and discuss
"The Jewish School of Paris" 7:30 p.m.
Monday, May 20.
Varian's War, a fictionalized film
about Fry originally made for
Showtime, will be on view 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 23.
"I am more than pleased that
Americans are finding out about Varian
Fry," says Isenberg, who also wrote
Women Who Love Men Who Kill and
The Life and Times of Ron Brown.
"The Europeans he saved — writers,
philosophers, political activists, most
of the surrealists, musicians, scientists
— created film noir, generated the cre-
ative and cultural atmosphere in which
the New York School of Painting was
born and added indelibly and pro-
foundly to our American culture,
which would have been very different
without Fry's actions." ❑
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"Assignment Rescue: The Story
of Varian Fry and the Emergency
Rescue Committee" will be on
view through June 27 at the
Janice Charach Epstein Gallery at
the West Bloomfield Jewish
Community Center. Isenberg's
and Cooper's talks will be in
Handelman Hall East. The film
will be shown in Handelman
Hall West. Gallery hours are 10
a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-
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Sundays. (248) 432-5448.
Celebrating Michigan Artists
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n a very different presentation from "Assignment Rescue: The Story of
Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee," the Janice Charach
Epstein Gallery is displaying a companion exhibit, "Celebrate."
The exhibit, part of the commemoration of the gallery's 10th anniversary,
will include works of 22 Michigan artists whose talents have been recog-
nized at the gallery through individual or group shows.
Among the artists whose works will be shown are Eileen Aboulafia,
Barbara Coburn, Bertha Cohen, Terry Lee Dill, Barbara Dorchen, Joyce
Gottlieb, Renee Gruskin, Gail Kaplan, Barbara Keidan, Sandra Levin,
Helene Lubin, Beverly Neumann and Marilyn Schechter.
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