Anya Schiffrin | The New York Review of Books

Anya Schiffrin

Anya Schiffrin teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She is the editor of the books Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World (2014) and African Muckraking: 75 Years of African Investigative Journalism from Africa (2018). (October 2019)

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How Varian Fry Helped My Family Escape the Nazis

After a harrowing wait in hopes of boarding a ship out of Marseille in 1942, my grandfather received help from an American journalist named Varian Fry. With the visas Fry helped to obtain for them, the Schiffrin family finally made its way to New York—an escape reminiscent of the plot of Casablanca.

October 3, 2019