This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Varian
Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists
fleeing the Holocaust. In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to
Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and
writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in
France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief
organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an
underground railroad that led over the Pyrenees, into Spain, and finally to
Lisbon, where the refugees embarked for safer ports. Among his many clients
were Hannah Arendt, Franz Werfel, André Breton, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and
Marc Chagall.
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