Varian+Fry-Rescuer

Varian Fry (Rescuer) Stephen Scholz p.2 Varian Fry was a French-American Rescuer, who rescued about 4,000 anti-Nazis from concentration camps. He worked with Vichy France and ran a network with connections with mobs, French Resistance, and forgers. He was most interested in saving writers, artists and thinkers. He had a small list of people that he wanted to save, for example Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Hans Habe, and Jacques Herold. His plan was too help Anti-Nazis escaped from concentration camps and get to the neutral country of Portugal. He got the motive to save anti-Nazis when he went to Berlin in 1935, when he saw a SA German solider assaulting Jews on the streets. To add on to his fire and passion to save he started to save people after Hitler and Germany took over France.

Varian lived from (1907-1967). His father worked on Wall Street and his mother was a school teacher. He was a Harvard Graduate and founded the Hound and horn literary quarterly while an undergraduate at Harvard. After graduating he married his wife Eileen Kinstein. At an older age he began part of the American Relief Committee. In 1967 he died at 60 in Connecticut.

Varian had a big impact in the Holocaust. He helped to save about 4,000 anti-Nazis and without him that would mean that 4,000 more anti-Nazis would have died in the Holocaust.