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The flight portfolio / Julie Orringer.

Orringer, Julie, (author.).

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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, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Marc Chagall.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307959409
  • ISBN: 0307959406
  • Physical Description: 562 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2019].

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Subject:
Fry, Varian, 1907-1967 > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > France > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Refugees > Fiction.
Jewish refugees > Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.

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