Varian Fry
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Varian Mackey Fry was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France from August 1940 to September 1941 that helped 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees, mostly artists and intellectu
Fry as a child
Fry and Miriam Davenport, c. 1940
Varian Fry Street, Berlin
Place Varian Fry in Marseille
Mary Jayne Gold
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Mary Jayne Gold was an American heiress who played an important role helping European Jews and intellectuals escape from Nazi-occupied France in 1940–41, during World War II. Many had fled there in pr
Varian Fry
…claiming to be married to them. Among Fry's closest associates were Americans Miriam Davenport, a former art student at the Sorbonne, and Chicago heiress Mary Jayne Gold, a lover of the arts and the "good life" who had come to Paris in the early 1930s. Gold was wealthy and financed many of the operations of the ERC…
Mary Jayne Gold