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A Hero of Our Own The Story of Varian Fry  ~ The story of Varian Fry is important on many levels historical and personal Skillfully evoking a crucial moment in recent history Sheila Isenberg tells the compelling and dramatic story of how an ordinary person thrust into a situation of extreme danger did extraordinary things for one year in wartime France then drifted almost lost through the rest of his own life
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A Hero of Our Own The Story of Varian Fry by Sheila Isenberg ~ Varian Fry was a good person but complicated Probably bipolar and possibly definitely according to his son in a recent letter to the NY Times Book Review a closeted homosexual Highly intelligent arrogant intolerant of those he saw as less gifted plagued with fits of anger he had a mostly friendless youth
A Hero of Our Own The Story of Varian Fry  Sheila  ~ A Hero of Our Own The Story of Varian Fry Sheila IsenbergRandom House 2001 349 pages The story of Varian Fry is perhaps less well known than that of Oscar Schindler but to some he became known as the American Schindler or The Artists Schindler In 1940 Fry was sent to France by the Emergency Rescue Committee in New York with a list of two hundred names and only three thousand dollars 
A Hero of Our Own The Story of Varian Fry by Sheila Isenberg ~ “Varian Fry was the American Schindler He even had a list He arrived in Vichycontrolled Marseille on Aug 15 1940 with 3000 taped to his leg and a charge from the organization he worked for the Emergency Rescue Committee to help save some 200 endangered refugees mainly artists writers and intellectuals from the Nazis
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Varian Fry  MY HERO ~ Shortly before his death Fry was awarded the Croix de Chevalier de la Legion dHonneur or the Cross of Knight of the Honor Legion by the French government which was the only recognition he got before his death To me Varian Fry is a hero because he saved thousands of people even when he was told to save fewer