Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1942-1947.

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Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1942-1947.

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1 letter mainly concerns the Austrian intellectual Klaus Dohrn, for whom Fry was trying to arrange an American or Mexican visa; 1 letter concerns expenses incurred by Fry's wife in trying to help bring Werfel's parents to the U.S. from Marseille, assistance that was offered out of personal friendship for Werfel's sister Marianne Rieser, unconnected with the Emergency Rescue Committee. Alma Mahler's letter expresses appreciation to Fry for his rescue work.

3 items (3 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Fry, Varian, 1907-1967

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Varian Fry, an American journalist, was sent to France in 1940 as an emissary of the Emergency Rescue Committee, a private American relief organization formed in 1940 in New York to aid refugees in Vichy, France who stood in danger of Nazi persecution; Fry expedited the emigration of many prominent intellectuals. He made the acquaintance of Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel in Marseilles in August 1940 and helped them make their way safely across the border into Spain and then to Portugal,...