Research Catalog
Varian Fry genealogical research papers
- Title
- Varian Fry genealogical research papers, 1829-1966 bulk (1850s-1890s).
- Author
- Fry, Varian, 1907-1967.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 6 linear feet (16 boxes).
- Summary
- The Varian Fry genealogical research papers contains personal papers belonging to members of Varian Fry's extended family dating from 1829 to 1921, correspondence relating to Fry's genealogical research dating mainly from 1958 through 1962, family photographs, and a comprehensive index to the research.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Diaries.
- Photographs.
- Scrapbooks.
- Access (note)
- Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
- Biography (note)
- Varian Fry (1907-1967) was a Harvard-educated journalist who travelled to Marseilles in 1940 on behalf of the Emergency Rescue Committee in order to aid in the escape of endangered citizens, predominantly artists, writers, and intellectuals, from occupied France.
- Call Number
- MssCol NYGB 18088
- OCLC
- 316805221
- Author
- Fry, Varian, 1907-1967.
- Title
- Varian Fry genealogical research papers, 1829-1966 bulk (1850s-1890s).
- Restricted Access
- Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
- Biography
- Varian Fry (1907-1967) was a Harvard-educated journalist who travelled to Marseilles in 1940 on behalf of the Emergency Rescue Committee in order to aid in the escape of endangered citizens, predominantly artists, writers, and intellectuals, from occupied France. Fry assisted over 2000 people in fleeing the Third Reich and earned the nickname "the American Schindler." Among those whose exits he facilitated were Hannah Arendt, Jean Arp, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, André Breton, Max Ophuls, and Marcel Duchamp. In the last years of his life, Fry assigned himself to the task of family genealogist, and began collecting family papers and researching his family's origins both in the United States and abroad.
- Finding Aids
- Finding aid available in repository and on internet: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/fryv.pdf
- Source
- MSS 2008M27
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Duncan, Francis.Duncan, Hester Ann.White, Ambrose Lipscomb.White, Charles Belden.White, Jessie Bateman.New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol NYGB 18088