Many thanks for the starting the conversation and the information on Varian Fry Edgar. I have recently read 2 books about the escape from Europe of Albert Einstein and Marc Chagall and Mr Fry figured in securing the exit of both men. Heroic!Regards Miriam Suss
Fascinating story.
I do not have access to the full text of this piece, but it seems
a good starting place:
“We Are Standing By”: Rescue Operations of the United States
Committee for the Care of European Children
Michal Ostrovsky
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 29, Issue 2, Fall 2015,
Pages 230–250, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcv028
Published: 05 August 2015
Abstract
This article explores the activities of the United States
Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM), a
non-sectarian rescue organization that operated throughout World
War II. USCOM managed to bring to the US a total of approximately
1,300 children—both Jewish and non-Jewish—in two separate
operations: the first from Britain in 1940, and the second from
concentration camps in southern France between 1941 and 1944. In
its effort to find suitable host families for the children in the
United States, the committee cooperated mainly with Jewish
organizations.
HOWEVER:
There was also this similar organization with very similar name:
The United States Committee for the Care of European Children
Getting Children to Safety | Americans and the Holocaust
https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/personal-story/united-states-committee-for-the-care-of-european-children
This Wikipedia entry (mentioning Serpa Pinto in 1942) suggests
that it is actually the above--USCOM--you are thinking of, rather
than the organization you mention:
RMS Ebro - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Ebro#:~:text=Serpa%20Pinto's%20crossed%20from,Germans%2C%20and%2013%20were%20Poles.
At any rate, lots of references to pursue their, and perhaps
eventually, after doing that research, you should contact USHMM.
Good luck in your quest
Jim
On 5/26/24 21:24, Anita Brush wrote:
My mother, Esther Steren Greenbaum, born in
Lipcani, but lived in Czernowitz from 1921-28 was in Marseille
in 1941-42 waiting for an American Visa. She was finally
granted a Visa in April 1942. She eventually got a position
escorting endangered children living in France from Marseille
to New York on the SS Serpa Pinto in June 1942. The organization
sponsoring the children was the US Committee to Rescue European
Children. If anyone has any information about that committee
and how such jobs were obtained, I would love to learn about it.
I have the names and pictures of six of the children she
escorted. I would love to find their descendants.
Your welcome. I believe it may be his
self-portrait.
Thanks for thé painting :)
For those who are not familiar, here
is a small painting by Brauner I saw at the Jewish
Museum in Amsterdam’s exhibit of Jewish Surrealist
artists.
Yes, dear Mark, you are absolutely
right, Victor Brauner is one of those who
were supported by the ERC, as the
Wikipedia article on Varian Fry confirms.
There is also an interesting article on
Paul Schmierer, code name "Cantor":
Marseille is not only, but also in this
respect a fascinating city.
Edgar Hauster [iPad]
The Romanian surrealist
Victor Brauner was also in Marseilles
during the war and I believe was
mentioned in Transatlantic, although I
am not sure he was extricated by the
ERC.
Parisians with a
metropolitan attitude
probably don't care that
their city was European
Capital of Culture in 1989.
Different in Marseille,
where the citizens have seen
a visible upturn in their
city since its nomination in
2013. Of course, the poverty
rate, the proportion of
migrants and the crime rate
are very high in Marseille.
Nevertheless, the catamaran
in the harbor is called
"joie de vivre" and the joie
de vivre in the city is
palpable. This also applies
to my niece Isabelle and her
husband Christophe, who
invited me into their
beautiful house at the foot
of Notre-Dame de la Garde,
the city's landmark, with
such a great hospitality.
Isabelle is the
great-great-great-great-granddaughter
of the butcher Abraham
Fleischer from Tarnobrzeg in
Poland.
In the 1940s, it was less
about enjoying life and more
about bare survival. In
August 1940, the Emergency
Rescue Committee (ERC)
commissioned the US
journalist Varian Fry to
travel to Marseille to set
up a rescue network. He was
originally supposed to
rescue 200 anti-fascist
intellectuals, but by the
end of his mission there
were around 2,000 people,
including Hannah Arendt,
Marc Chagall, Lion
Feuchtwanger and numerous
others. Many people know the
series "Marseille" with
Gérard Depardieu in the
leading role, but only a few
know the series
"Transatlantic", also
produced by Netflix; it is
about the ERC and Varian
Fry. The US consulate stands
on a square named after him
and a memorial plaque in
front of the consulate
commemorates him. But Varian
Fry was not alone, he had
fellow fighters at his side,
including the doctor and
staunch communist Paul
Schmierer. And where did
Paul Schmierer come from?
Right, you guessed it - from
Czernowitz! The same
Czernowitz in Bukovina where
Isabelle's
great-great-grandfather and
my great-grandfather Mechel
Fleischer ran a men's
outfitting salon on
Herrengasse. What‘s about
your ancestors?
Edgar Hauster
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