Varian Fry Institute
dedicated to Americans Who Cared
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Hiram Bingham IV (1904-1988) righteous vice-consul in 1940-41, stamp issued in May 2006 |
Leon ("Dick") Ball |
“In all we saved some two thousand human beings. We ought to have saved many times that number. But we did what we could.”
Varian Fry
In a challenging time, Varian Fry, Miriam Davenport Ebel, Mary Jayne Gold, Charles Fawcett, Leon Ball and Hiram Bingham IV, were Americans who joined with others in the U.S. and in Marseille, France, to further brotherhood from sea to shining sea...
On Jan. 26, 2006, on Holocaust Remembrance Day in the United Kingdom, Charles Fernley Fawcett was honored in the presence of Prime Minister Tony Blair.
On April 25 and on May 7, 2006, the Fry rescue mission will be honored on Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day at Chapman College, Orange, CA, and then at Beth El Congregation, Pittsburgh, PA, with presentations by Pierre Sauvage. On May 23, Pierre Sauvage will be speaking and showing film clips at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris, as part of their tribute to the Righteous. (On May 24, there will be a presentation of the upcoming DVD of Weapons of the Spirit.)
On May 30, 2006, a stamp is being issued in honor of Hiram Bingham IV, whom Varian Fry called his "partner in the crime of saving lives."
Varian Fry in Marseille by Pierre Sauvage
Other pending Fry-related events
a project of the Chambon Foundation
Varian Fry et le Centre américain de secours par Pierre Sauvage (in French)
On
Mary Jayne Gold, with excerpts from her published memoir
Crossroads
Marseille 1940,
which chronicles her participation in the rescue
effort
Americans Who Cared and why we should care about them
Tribute to Miriam Davenport Ebel,
Varian
Fry's close aide who died September 13, 1999, at the age of 84
An Unsentimental Education,
Miriam Davenport Ebel's memoir of
1940
The Indomitable Lisa Fittko (1909-2005)
A Hero Of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry, a biography (2001) by Sheila Isenberg
A Quiet American: The Secret War
of Varian Fry, a biography (1999) by Andy Marino
Interview with
Andy Marino
Other Varian Fry-Related Resources and Internet Links
Oh
You Must Not Peek Under My Sunbonnet,
the first peek at Mary
Jayne Gold's delightful, still unpublished memoir of her early years
Varian Fry Photo Gallery (pending)
Chambon Foundation presentations
And
Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille,
upcoming feature documentary by Pierre Sauvage
Some of the 2,000 people helped...
Officers of the Emergency Rescue Committee
On-line video clips (pending)
Crossroads Marseillethe movie project
Varian's War, 2001 Showtime movie, which purported to be about Varian Fry
Internet Links on righteous Gentiles
America and the Holocaust—a few recommendations
Reward! (Gratitude.) If you knew Leon ("Dick"?) Ball,
a tough-talking lard salesman in France in the '30s who joined in the rescue
effort
and may have served later in the French Resistance, please let us know!
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