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1. The peace that failed : how Europe sowed the seeds of war / by Varian Fry.
Publication | Library Call Number: D727 .F79 1939
Author/Creator:
Fry, Varian, 1907-1967
Published:
[New York] : Foreign Policy Association, 1939
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…The peace that failed : how Europe sowed the seeds of war / by Varian Fry.…
2. Miriam Davenport Ebel papers
1991.158.88 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.158.88
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1989
bulk: 1938-1945
…, and the University of Paris, and escaped to Toulouse and then Marseille during the German invasion in May 1940. She worked with Varian Fry at the…
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 … in Marseilles and Ljubljana; her work and friendships with Varian Fry, Mary Jayne Gold, Walter Mehring, Hans Sahl, and others; and relief committees…
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3. Hiram and Rose Bingham papers
1991.240.15 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.240.15
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1989
…. Bingham developed contacts with members of the French resistance and assisted the rescue efforts of Varian Fry's Emergency Rescue Committee. Bingham issued…
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 … refugees at the American Consulate in Marseilles, the concentration camp at Gurs, Marc Chagall, and Lion Feuchtwanger, and a letter from Varian Fry…
4. Alexander Dallin papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.552.1
Date:
bulk: 1939-1943
inclusive: 1939-2003
… memorializing American Journalist, Varian Fry, which all relate to Dallin’s experience in Vichy France after escaping Nazi Germany before he and his mother left…
5. Cahnmann-Kramer family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.491.1
Date:
1939-1967
… camp near Tours. He then went to Marseilles while waiting for his visa. After receiving help from American journalist Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue…
6. Lena Fishman Fagen collection
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0094 | RG Number: RG-06.022
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1951
bulk: 1933-1944
… Refugees. She fled Paris when the Germans invaded, made her way to Marseilles, and found work with Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee. She escaped…
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 … Committee for the High Commissioner for Refugees. She fled Paris when the Germans invaded, made her way to Marseilles, and found work with Varian Fry and the…
7. Frieda and Johanna Gross collection
Document | Accession Number: 2007.215
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2000
… immediately and went to France where he was among those rescued by Varian Fry. Frieda and Johanna booked passage on the St. Louis. They had applied for U…
8. Elizabeth Koenig papers
1989.260.3 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 1989.260.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1927-1995
bulk: 1939-1942
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Enfants home, La Guespy. Varian Fry of the Emergency Rescue Committee offered Fritz a non-quota American visa as an endangered, anti-Nazi European refugee…
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 … then helping Dr. Juliette Usach care for German Jewish refugee children at the Secours Suisse aux Enfants home, La Guespy. Varian Fry of the Emergency…
9. Red leather photograph case carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2011.433.1 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2011.433.1
Date:
use: 1939-1941
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…
10. Striped silk tallit, green velvet bag and white liner used by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.1_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.1 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…
11. Pair of tefillin with an embroidered green velvet bag used by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.2_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.2 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…
12. Blue striped tallit with embroidered Hebrew text used by a Czech Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.4
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…
13. Belt for a kittel [ceremonial robe] saved by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.6
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…
14. Red and black plastic cigarette holder used by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.5
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…
15. Pametni Medaile Ceskoslovenska Armada V Zahranici (Czechoslovak Army Abroad) awarded to a Czech Jewish soldier
2007.228.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.228.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 October
… to some other country. When their money ran low, they received financial aid from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit…
16. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.180 | RG Number: RG-67.017
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2005
bulk: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Fry, Varian, 1907-, Righteous Among the Nations.…
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 … organization they set up at this time continued to function throughout the war. They set up an office in Lisbon, where they met the future rescuer Varian Fry…
17. Magyar Általános Hitelbank Rt. Személyzeti és szervezési osztály (MOL Z 53)
Document | Accession Number: 2009.7 | RG Number: RG-39.020M
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1949
Alternate Title:
Records of Hungarian General Credit Bank Co. Personnel and Organizational Departments
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 … neve Fried Zelma – 1934‐es nyugdíjaztatási peres ügye. 1949. január 10‐én kitöltötte a „nyugdíjszerződéseket felülvizsgáló bizottság” kérdőívét. 1‐282…
18. Gerald Schwab papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.327.25
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2012
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 … 2.19 Fry, Varian, 1951 2.20 George Arents Research Library for Special Collections, 1992 2.21 Grimm, Friedrich, 1949-1950, 1957 2.22 Honig, Sarah…
19. Selected records of the Unitarian Service Committee and the Universalist Service Committee
Document | Accession Number: 2011.73 | RG Number: RG-67.028
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1957
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 … includes: Liste Complete des Clients du Centre Americain de Secours. This center was started by Varian Fry). bMS 16007/20 (4) Portugal. Lisbon. Liste…
20. Haute Cour de justice (3W)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.492.1 | RG Number: RG-43.167
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1960
Alternate Title:
High Court of Justice
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 … Hilferding aux autorités allemandes, 8 février 1941 795 extrait de l'ouvrage du Professeur Varian Fry, directeur du Centre américain de Secours " Surender on…