INFORMATION+ABOUT+VARIAN+FRY+(MEEN.HYEJIN,YUUKA)

1. Information about the person's life and job - He was a journalist and his nationality was American. While staiyng in France about 13month, he helped anti-Nazis to escape from France. He rescued about 2000people. He helped raise money to support European anti-Nazi movements. Varian Fry founded //Hound & Horn//, an influential literary quarterly, in 1927 with Lincoln Kirstein while an undergraduate at Harvard. He married Kirstein's sister, Eileen.While working as a foreign correspondent for the American journal //The Living Age//, Fry visited Berlin in 1935 and personally witnessed Nazi savagery against Jews on more than one occasion.Greatly disturbed by what he saw, he helped raise money to support European anti-Nazi movements. Following the occupation of France in August 1940 he went to Marseille as an agent of the newly formed Emergency Rescue Committee in an effort to help persons wishing to flee the Nazis. Fry had $3,000 and a short list of refugees under imminent threat of arrest by agents of the Gestapo. Clamoring at his door came anti-Nazi writers, avant-garde artists, musicians and hundreds of others desperately seeking any chance to escape France.