Anya Schiffrin

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.