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Assignment, rescue the story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee / Richard Kaplan productions ; Varian Fry Foundation Project/IRC ; director/producer, Richard Kaplan ; producer/writer Christina Lazardi

Publication | Library Call Number: VHS-0141

After falling to the Germans, France is partitioned. In the unoccupied southern part (Vichy), several thousand refugees are trapped in Marseilles and in French camps to be "surrendered on demand" to the Gestapo. Varian Fry is sent by the newly formed Emergency Rescue Committee to Marseilles for 3 weeks to rescue 200 of the most famous intellectual refugees.

Variant Title
Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee
Format
Video
Published
New York : Richard Kaplan Productions, 1997
Locale
France
Language
English
Edition
General audience version

About This Publication

Physical Description
1 videocassette (26 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Other Authors/Editors
Streep, Meryl.
Kaplan, Richard.
Lazardi, Christina.
Richard Kaplan Productions.
Varian Fry Foundation Project/IRC.
Notes
Digital reproductions are made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only.
Editor, Malcolm Jamieson ; Graphic Design Sarah Frank.
Narrator, Meryl Streep
VHS format.
Additional Form
Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.

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Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
Digital reproductions are made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only.
Conditions on Use
Subject to copyright restrictions.

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