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Varian Fry was born on October 15 1907 in New York, New York. He sadly died 60 years later on September 13 1967 due to a heart attack in Easton Connecticut. Varian Fry is a rescuer because he rescued over 4,000 Jews. In 1940 after Germany defeated France the ERC (Emergency Rescue Committee) was created in New York. In the same year Varian Fry joined that committee and was chosen out of hundreds of people to be a spy and go into France and spy on the Germans. After witnessing the violence to the Jews Varian Fry wanted to do something about it. Rescuing the Jews out of France wouldn’t be easy for him he had to make fake ID papers, disguises etc... for the Jews he was rescuing. He rescued some famous people such as artists Marc Chagall and Max Ernst, writer Hannah Arenat and sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. The French police tried to capture him many times with questioning but he always found a way to get out of it. How ever he was stilled jailed two times in France for not obeying the law. Then in 1941 he was asked to leave by the French Government. That was the end of Varian Fry’s rescuing life. However Varian Fry did write two books about his experiences: **__Surrender On Demand__** and **__Assignment Rescue__**. However the books weren’t popular and he didn’t make many sells.
 * Varian Fry **
 * (Rescuer) **

Schmittroth Linda, Rosteck Mary Kay __**People Of The Holocaust,**__ New York, Thomas L. Romig, 1998 Shoah Resource Center. "Fry, Varian." __Shoah Resource cent__. 6 May 2009 .