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
Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt was a German and American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.
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…included an all-star cast of Kulturträger [culture carriers], among them artists Marc Chagall and Max Ernst, and writer André Breton and philosopher Hannah Arendt." His activities, illegal under the laws of Vichy France, contrary to the policies of the United States government, and opposed by many of the other…
Arendt in 1958
Paul Arendt c. 1900
Martha Cohn c. 1899
Hannah Arendt with her grandfather, Max, in 1907