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  • From left: Hanno Koffler as Hans Fittko, Deleila Piasko as Lisa Fittko, Cory Michael Smith as Varian Fry, and Amit Rahav as Thomas Lovegrove in ‘Transatlantic’
    From left: Hanno Koffler as Hans Fittko, Deleila Piasko as Lisa Fittko, Cory Michael Smith as Varian Fry, and Amit Rahav as Thomas Lovegrove in ‘Transatlantic’
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    The Love Song of Varian Fry

    In Netflix’s ‘Transatlantic,’ the American journalist who saved Hannah Arendt and Marc Chagall is reimagined as a virtuous victim

    byPhyllis Chesler
  • Jewish children sheltered by the Protestant population of the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, 1941.(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
    Jewish children sheltered by the Protestant population of the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, 1941.(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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    Does ‘Village of Secrets’ Falsify French Rescue During the Holocaust?

    Caroline Moorehead gives a new account of Le Chambon, where Jews were given refuge by Righteous Gentiles

    byPierre Sauvage
  • Left to right: Dimitri Leonidas, John Goodman, George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Bob Balaban in The Monument Men.(Claudette Barius/Sony Pictures)
    Left to right: Dimitri Leonidas, John Goodman, George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Bob Balaban in The Monument Men.(Claudette Barius/Sony Pictures)
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    ‘The Monuments Men’ Shows How America Saved Paintings While Letting Jews Die

    Audiences may not feel quite so good about the new George Clooney film once they learn the full story behind WWII art rescue efforts

    byRafael Medoff
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    The Rescuer

    Varian Fry led the effort to save Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, and thousands of other European intellectuals from the Nazis. Why was he forgotten?

    byDara Horn
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