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Varian Fry (1907–1967) was an American journalist who helped refugees escape from France in 1940–1941. In August 1940, he was sent to the French city of Marseille by the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC), a private American aid organization. Fry’s task was to help artists, writers, and anti-Nazi refugees escape from France, which surrendered to Nazi Germany on June 22, 1940.
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