Ingrid’s apartment overlooked the garden of the Museum of Mo... (1940)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
The ERC was often flying blind in tracking down threatened artists and intellectuals amid the alarums of war. In July 1940, the group decided on a daring operation in Ingrid’s apartment: They would send their own hand-picked underground agent to Marseilles. They chose Harvard-educated Varian Fry, a fastidious young man with horn-rimmed glasses and a literary background.
chapter: 34 - Surreal Saviors