In August 1940. Varian Mackey Fry. then a 32yearold editor for the Foreign Policy Association in New York. was sent to Marseilles by the Emergency Rescue Committee. a private relief agency dedicated to aiding those who resisted the Nazi takeover of France. Frys scheduled 3week mission was to assist European artists. writers. scholars. and political thinkers whose religion. views. or careers made them vulnerable to Nazi persecution or arrest. In the course of his work. Fry assisted in the emigration of some of the 20th centurys great talents. His clients Included artists Marc Chagall. Max Ernst. Jacques Upchttz. and Andre Masson. writer Andre Breton and musician Wanda Landowska. political philosopher Hanna Arendt and the Nobel Laureate In medicine. physiologist Otto Meyerhof.
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