Life+of+Varian+Fry

**  **Varian Fry(1907~1967) **
 * Introduction about him
 * He is an American journalist who ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

Varian Fry was born in New York City on October 15, 1907, and was brought up in suburban Ridgewood, New Jersey. His father worked in Wall Street; his mother had been a public school teacher. He was an only child, and his boyhood was somewhat lonely. He did well in school but, because he had to wear glasses, he had trouble with sports. He hated the name "Varian." He felt it sounded like a girl's name and he asked the other kids, without much success, to call him "Tommy." He was a great reader of books. He liked to work with his father in their flower garden. As a result of saving a wounded cedar waxwing from the claws of the family cat, he became a lifelong bird watcher. The experience is described, along with a picture of the eleven-year-old Varian with his rescued bird perched on the back of his hand, in the New York Zoological Society Bulletin , May 1919. He is a man who was an American journalist. He helped anti-Nazi refugees escape from France. Varian Fry found his courage when called upon to act in a moment of extraordinary historical and personal challenge, saving thousands of lives during the Second World War. Varian Fry was born in New York City on October 15, 1907, and was brought up in suburban Ridgewood, New Jersey. **