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A Hero of Our Own The Story of Varian Fry  ~ Sheila Isenberg is the author of A Hero of Our Own The Story of Varian Fry Random House 2001 and Women Who Love Men Who Kill Simon  Schuster 1991 She is coauthor with the late William M Kunstler of My Life as a Radical Lawyer Birch Lane Press 2004 and collaborator on The Life and Times of Ron Brown A Memoir by Tracey L Brown William Morrow 1998
A Hero of Our Own The Story of Varian Fry  ~ Then to read Isenbergs tale of Varian Fry living in southern France under the guise of an aid group who secretly helped those at dire risk of arrest and deportation found himself butting heads with the American Embassy and a US policy to go soft on Germany Fry was a hero in the mold similar to Schindler and Wallenberg
A Hero of Our Own The Story of Varian Fry by Sheila Isenberg ~ Varian Fry the only American honored at Yad Vashem Israels Holocaust memorial was a young New Yorker who rescued more than 1500 Europeans from the Nazis including Marc Chagall Max Ernst Hannah Arendt and other intellectuals politica
A Hero of Our Own The Story of Varian Fry  Sheila  ~ In 1940 Fry was sent to France by the Emergency Rescue Committee in New York with a list of two hundred names and only three thousand dollars in his pocket A Hero of Our Own The Story of Varian Fry Sheila IsenbergRandom House 2001 349 pages The story of Varian Fry is perhaps less well known than that of Oscar Schindler but to some he became known as the American Schindler or The Artists Schindler
A Hero of Our Own The Story of Varian Fry by Sheila  ~ Varian Fry was the American Schindler He even had a list He arrived in Vichycontrolled Marseille on Aug 15 1940 with 3000 taped to his leg and a charge from the organization he worked for the Emergency Rescue Committee to help save some 200 endangered refugees mainly artists writers and intellectuals from the Nazis
A Hero of Our Own The Story of Varian Fry by Sheila Isenberg ~ “Varian Fry was the American Schindler He even had a list He arrived in Vichycontrolled Marseille on Aug 15 1940 with 3000 taped to his leg and a charge from the organization he worked for the Emergency Rescue Committee to help save some 200 endangered refugees mainly artists writers and intellectuals from the Nazis
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Varian Fry  MY HERO ~ Shortly before his death Fry was awarded the Croix de Chevalier de la Legion dHonneur or the Cross of Knight of the Honor Legion by the French government which was the only recognition he got before his death To me Varian Fry is a hero because he saved thousands of people even when he was told to save fewer