Long Term Impact
People that Fry saved included:
"novelist Heinrich Mann and Golo Mann, brother and son of Nobel prize-winning writer Thomas Mann; artists Marc Chagall, Andre Masson, Wilfred Lam, and Max Ernst; sculptor Jacques Lipchitz; poet and dramatist Franz Werfel; Nobel Prize-winning physicist Otto Meyerhof; historian Konrad Heiden; writer and political scientist Hannah Arendt; historical novelist Lion Feuchtwanger; mathematician Emil Gumbel; journalist Hans Notonek; novelists Leonhard Frank, Alfred Polgar, and Hertha Pauli; harpsichordist Wanda Landowska; and scientist Jaques Hadamard". Fry saved these people and brought them to a safe place where they could live the rest of their lives in freedom. "In 1991, 24 years after his death"(In September 13th, 1967), "Fry received his first official recognition in the United States in the form of the Eisenhower Liberation Medal". "It honors Varian Fry as one of the 'Righteous Among the Nations of the World,' those 'High-minded Gentiles [non-Jews] who risked their lives to save Jews". "In 1997, Barwood Films, established by actor/ singer Barbara Streisand, announced plans to make a television movie based on the life of Fry. The man who rescued even more Jews than Oskar Schindler is finally being recognized for his heroism". "Fry is the only American ever to receive the Righteous Among the Nations Award". |
Not Quite Lost.Varian Fry is not very well-known in History. However, his story is not totally forgotten. He has books he has written and books written about him, there is even a movie, "Varian's War".
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