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.Varian Fry was born October 7 1907 in New York City ,NY
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Varian Fry Graduated from Harvard University with a degree in classics.
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The enabling act was passes as a amendment to the
German constitution in 1933. That gave hitler full power over the new nazi Germany. -
Fry took a business trip for The Living Age to Germany to see for himself the conditions that he had been hearing about regarding the plight of European Jews.
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Fry witnessed a anti-jewish riot in Berlin then fry wrote many dispatches describing what he had observed.
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Varian Fry moved on to a job with the forign policy Association’s Headline Books in New York his new job allowed him to write several books on foregn affairs.
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The start of world war 2
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fry went to Marseille as an newly forrmed emergancy rescue committee in an effort to help people wishing to flee nazis.
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Fry returned back to the United States in september of 1941 and resumed his career in publishing He found a job as an editor with The New Republic magazine and wrote numerous pieces on the plight of European Jewry in the following years.
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Japan attacked pearl Harbor and US enters war.
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Varian was arrested by the french police and was given 2 hours to pack his bags then escorted to the Spanish border.
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Fry wrote and spoke critically against US immigration policies particularly relating to the issue of the fate of jews in Europe.
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British and Indian forces fight Japanese in Burma.
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The ERC office was raided and close down, then in new york fry tried to alert the world that was was coming known as the holocaust.
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US and British troops land on Sicily. By mid-August, the Allies control Sicily.
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The new government of Italy surrendered to British and the US. Then Germany took over the Italian army.
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The allied invasion of France ,Paris is liberated in august.
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After atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrenders on 14 August.
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Russia declared war on japan thin invaded the japanese ruled Manchuria.
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The ending of world war 2
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In 1950 Varian fry was considered the president of a film company called cinemart.
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Varian Fry died on September 13 1967. He died of Intracerebral Hemorrhage and was found dead in his bed. He was burried with his parents in greenwood cemetery Brooklyn New York.
