A Hero of Our Own

Fry was the American Schindler...with desperate exiles menacing Nazis forged documents and midnight escapes...[think] <I>Casablanca</I>.</p>--New York Times</p><P>Varian Fry the only American honored at Yad Vashem Israel's Holocaust memorial was a young New Yorker who rescued more than 1500 Europeans from the Nazi's including Mar Chagall Max Ernst Hannah Arendt and other intellectuals political activists and degenerative artists many of them Jews. This moving Holocaust rescue story is set against the backdrop of American isolationism and anti-Semitism.</p><P>The drama here is in the thrill of rescue the realistic portrait of a complex leader and the decidedly nonheroic truths about WWII at home.</p>--American Library Association</p><p>One of the <b>BEST BOOKS</b> of 2001</p>--St. Louis Post-Dispatch</p>