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Assignment Rescue Varian Fry Exhibition Catalogue 1997 Holocaust Museum RARE
Assignment Rescue Varian Fry Exhibition Catalogue 1997 Holocaust Museum RARE
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Assignment Rescue: The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee. Exhibition Catalogue, November 23, 1997-March 29, 1998. Published by The Jewish Museum, The Field Museum and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Softcover exhibition catalogue. 64 pages with photographs.
Rare catalogue from the traveling museum exhibition about Varian Fry, an American journalist who volunteered in 1940 to rescue intellectuals and political refugees from Nazi-occupied Vichy France.
Fry saved over 2,000 people including Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Hannah Arendt, and many other artists, writers, and intellectuals. In 1996, Yad Vashem honored him posthumously as the first American “Righteous Among the Nations.”
Exhibition documented Fry’s courageous work with the Emergency Rescue Committee. Features historical photographs, documents, and testimonies from this important Holocaust rescue story.
Condition: Good vintage condition. Some wear and aging consistent with a 27-year-old exhibition catalogue. Pages intact and complete. Light edge wear and handling marks.
Important historical document from landmark Holocaust memorial exhibition.
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Softcover exhibition catalogue. 64 pages with photographs.
Rare catalogue from the traveling museum exhibition about Varian Fry, an American journalist who volunteered in 1940 to rescue intellectuals and political refugees from Nazi-occupied Vichy France.
Fry saved over 2,000 people including Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Hannah Arendt, and many other artists, writers, and intellectuals. In 1996, Yad Vashem honored him posthumously as the first American “Righteous Among the Nations.”
Exhibition documented Fry’s courageous work with the Emergency Rescue Committee. Features historical photographs, documents, and testimonies from this important Holocaust rescue story.
Condition: Good vintage condition. Some wear and aging consistent with a 27-year-old exhibition catalogue. Pages intact and complete. Light edge wear and handling marks.
Important historical document from landmark Holocaust memorial exhibition.
