Emergency Rescue and Relief Committee

1. Annette Fry collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12384
• English
• Updated 7 months ago

Inscription from Andre Breton to Varian Fry

1. Annette Fry collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn80092
• English
• box oversize folder 1 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The Annette Fry papers primarily consist of photographic materials and correspondence documenting Varian Fry’s work for the Emergency Rescue Committee in France, some of the artists and intellectuals he aided, and travels around Europe. Photographic materials include prints, slides, negatives, and contact sheets depicting Eileen and Varian Fry, Andre Breton, Marc Chagall, Hans and Carmen Namuth, and scenes at Villa Airbel and in Marseilles, Italy, Portugal, England, and Spain. A set of annotated photographs include pictures of Varian Fry, his staff, Andre and Jacqueline Breton, Daniel Bened...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500841
• English
• 1940-1986
• boxes 32
• Updated 7 months ago

The Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers consists of correspondence, photocopies of archival documents, photographs, slides, and other ephemera collected by art historian Cynthia Jaffe McCabe in preparation for a planned exhibit regarding the work of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee. Includes photographs of Fry and various artists and intellectuals, including Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse, in and around Villa Air Bel, the Emergency Rescue Committee offices in Marseille, and other locations in unoccupied southern France in 1940-41. Also includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, unpublish...

1. Annette Fry collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12383
• English
• Updated 7 months ago

Reproduction (photocopy) of inscription from Dina Vierny to Varian Fry.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn5297
• English
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of 18 copy negatives of photographs Donald Carroll received from Annette Fry and others while researching the work of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee's work in Vichy France. Includes images of Miriam Davenport, Bill Spira, and others, as well as Villa Air Bel and the U.S. Consulate in Marseille.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn5315
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains photographs and passports documenting the experiences if Dyno Lowenstein, who escaped via Marseille with the assistance of the Emergency Rescue Committee. Includes photographs of the donor's parents, Kurt and Mara Lowenstein.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515774
• English
• 1940-1945
• folders 9
• Updated 7 months ago

The Emergency Rescue Committee collection documents the efforts of Varian Fry in assisting three of the more than 1,500 refugees he helped escape while living in France from 1940-1941. As a member of the Emergency Rescue Committee, Fry was sent to Marseille, France, to assist in the escape of prominent intellectuals and artists who were living in recently German-occupied France. The correspondence and cables concern Max Ernst, Elena Frank, and Wilhelm Herzog, in addition to a list of clients for the Emergency Rescue Committee that were living in various countries in 1943. The Emergency Resc...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502321
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains photocopied report on Emergency Rescue Committee with correspondence from Varian Fry, pp. 158-234. File 64.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516677
• English
• 1940-1942
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The papers consist of a certificate issued by Varian Fry from the Emergency Rescue Committee that attests to the service of Marcel Verzeano and a certificate issued by the Unitarian Service Committee that attests to service of Marcel Verzeano.

1. Miriam Davenport Ebel collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn72027
• English
• 1938-1945
• box 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The Miriam Davenport Ebel papers consist of correspondence, identification papers, mementos, photographs, and printed materials documenting Davenport’s wartime experiences in Marseilles and Ljubljana; her work and friendships with Varian Fry, Mary Jayne Gold, Walter Mehring, Hans Sahl, and others; and relief committees including the Emergency Rescue Committee, the International Relief and Rescue Committee, the Progressive Schools Committee for Refugee Children, and the Refugee Relief Trustees, Inc. Correspondence consists of letters, notes, and telegrams between Miriam Davenport and Mary Ja...

1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn81134
• English
• 2 digital files, WAV
• Updated 7 months ago

1. Annette Fry collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12520
• English
• Updated 7 months ago

Reproduction of pastel portrait of Varian Fry as youth.

1. Annette Fry collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12521
• English
• Updated 7 months ago

Reproduction of pastel portrait of Varian Fry as a youth.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516497
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Jean Gemähling (1912-2003) was a French Catholic educated at an English boarding school and worked as one of Varian Fry's assistants in Marseilles. In his January 9, 1945 letter to Gemähling, Fry asks for news of Gemähling’s survival and arrests in Vichy France and describes his 1945 memoir Surrender on Demand, his work at the New Republic and establishing the American Labor Conference on International Affairs, and his personal life as well as those of common friends and acquaintances. Among others, he mentions Jay Allen, Heinz Behrendt, Daniel Benedite, Georg Bernhardt, Victor Brauner, And...