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Some of the 2,000 people assisted by Varian Fry

and the Emergency Rescue Committee

(in alphabetical order per category)

Art

Marc Chagall in Gordes, France, in 1941

• Marc Chagall, artist

• Marcel Duchamp, artist

• Max Ernst, artist

• Wifredo Lam, artist

• Jacques Lipchitz, sculptor

• Chaim Lipnitski, photographer

• André Masson, artist

• Hans Namuth, photographer

• Charles Sterling, museum curator

• Bruno Strauss, art critic

• Paul Westheim, art critic

• Ylla (Camilla Koffler), photographer

Napoleon in the Wilderness, Max Ernst

 Writers, Publishers, Editors

• Hannah Arendt, writer

• Georg Bernhard, newspaper editor

• André Breton, writer

• Heinrich Ehrmann, economist

• Lion Feuchtwanger, novelist

• Leonard Frank, novelist

• Giuseppe Garetto, novelist

• Oscar Goldberg, scholar

• Hans Habe, novelist

• Konrad Heiden, writer, biographer of Hitler

• Wilhelm Herzog, anti-fascist writer

• Berthold Jacob, pacifist, journalist

• Jean Malaquais, novelist

• Golo Mann, historian

• Heinrich Mann, writer

• Valeriu Marcu, historian

• Walter Mehring, poet

• Hans Natonek, humorist

• Ernst-Erich Noth, writer

• Hertha Pauli, novelist

• Benjamin Péret, poet

• Alfred Polgar, essayist

• Hans Sahl, writer

• Jacques Schiffrin, publisher

• Victor Serge, writer

• Franz Werfel, writer

• Kurt and Helen Wolff, publishers

Theater, Music

• Hans Aufricht, theatrical producer

• Edvard Fendler, conductor

• Erich Itor-Kahn, pianist

• Heinz Jolles, pianist

• Siegried Kracauer, film critic

• Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist

• Lotte Leonard, singer

• Alma Mahler Werfel, muse

• Poliakoff-Litovzeff, theatrical producer

Science, Philosophy

• De Castro, Secretary of the Faculty of Science at the University of Madrid

• Emil S. Gumbel, statistician

• Jacques-Salomon Hadamard, mathematician

• Alfredo Mendizabel, professor of philosophy at the University of Madrid

• Otto Meyerhof, physiologist, winner of 1922 Nobel Prize for Medicine

• Boris Mirkine-Guetzevitch, Sorbonne

• Peter Pringsheim, physicist

• Bruno Strauss, psychiatrist

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