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Born
.Varian Fry was born October 7 1907 in New York City ,NY -
Graduation
Varian Fry Graduated from Harvard University with a degree in classics. -
enabling act
The enabling act was passes as a amendment to the
German constitution in 1933. That gave hitler full power over the new nazi Germany. -
The living age
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. -
anti-Jewish riot
Fry witnessed a anti-jewish riot in Berlin then fry wrote many dispatches describing what he had observed. -
Moving on
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. -
WW2
The start of world war 2 -
Invasion of France
fry went to Marseille as an newly forrmed emergancy rescue committee in an effort to help people wishing to flee nazis. -
The return
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. -
Attack
Japan attacked pearl Harbor and US enters war. -
taken away
Varian was arrested by the french police and was given 2 hours to pack his bags then escorted to the Spanish border. -
The massacre of jews in Europe
Fry wrote and spoke critically against US immigration policies particularly relating to the issue of the fate of jews in Europe. -
Burma
British and Indian forces fight Japanese in Burma. -
ERC office
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. -
ww2
US and British troops land on Sicily. By mid-August, the Allies control Sicily. -
Italy surrenders
The new government of Italy surrendered to British and the US. Then Germany took over the Italian army. -
D day
The allied invasion of France ,Paris is liberated in august. -
Bombs
After atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrenders on 14 August. -
Russia declares war on Japan.
Russia declared war on japan thin invaded the japanese ruled Manchuria. -
End WW2
The ending of world war 2 -
President
In 1950 Varian fry was considered the president of a film company called cinemart. -
Died
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.