Rescue and Flight: American Relief Workers Who Defied the Nazis

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Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations Abel, Frederick, 116 Addams, Jane, xxvii, 9 affidavits: for children’s emigration project, 62; Dexters on need for, 28, 95; issued by Hiram Bingham, 93; Margit Subak’s request for, 73; for Meyers, 102; recruitment of Americans to sign, 42; Unitarian Service Committee processing of, 81; for Walter Meyerhof, 77, 78. See also passports Africa, 166, 225, 226. See also North Africa; Sudan Agde, France, xv, 44, 51, 71–72, 81–82 Aix-en-Provence, 69 Alaska, 188 Algeria, 132, 189 Allen, Jay, 79, 80, 91 Allen, Richard, 253n13 Alsace, 87 Alsatians, 156, 194 Ame-Leroy, Madame, 32 American Aid to Czechoslovakia, 215 American Ambulance Corps, 45, 70 American Association of University Women, 117 American Committee for Christian Refugees, 263n35 American Committee for Relief in Czechoslovakia, 14 American Committee for the Care of European Children, 40, 60, 61 American Committee to Save European Children, 120 American Export Lines, 91 American Federation of Labor, 39, 58 American Friends of Czechoslovakia, 42–43 American Friends Service Committee: endorsement of Unitarians’ work, 181; internment camp relief work of, 252n8; on Nimes Committee, 67; and Subaks’ case, xxii; Unitarians’ admiration of, 26; on U.S. entry into war, 96–97;Varian Fry’s association with, 37, 161; and Walter Meyerhof’s escape, 78. See also Quaker groups American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the Joint): clients on Nyassa, 128; denial of funds, 164; funding of hicem, 67; funding of medical program, 124, 159, 257n8; on number of refugees rescued, 261n8; overseas staff, 243n30; in Poland, 22; rescue of children, 145, 178; and residence force population, 56; resistance funds from, 141; Varian Fry’s acquaintance with, 37–38; work with War Refugee Board, 195. See also Jewish organizations American Labor Conference on International Affairs, 172–73 American Red Cross, 35, 51, 89, 93, 252n8, 253n13. See also Red Cross organizations American Relief for Czechoslovakia, 213, 248n49 American South, 9, 223 Index 282 | index American Unitarian Association: annual budgets, 28, 95; Charles Joy’s early days with, 82; creation of refugee rescue organization, 26–28; “flower service” in, 244n33; institutional history, xii; Martha Sharp’s complaint to, 136; membership, xvii; overseas staff, 243n30; position on relief and rescue, xix–xxi, xxiii–xxiv; relationship with Czech Unitarian Church, 11, 13; representation on War Refugee Board, 187–91; Robert Dexter’s career with, 96; support of Donald Lowrie’s projects inVichy France, 44; support of Jo Tempi, 200–202; Waitstill Sharp’s early career with, 9. See also Unitarian Service Committee Amnesty International uSA, 233–35 Annemasse, 146, 151, 182 Anschluss (1938), xiii, 20 Anthony, Alfred, 96 Anthony Award, 99 Anthony family, 99 Anthony, Susan B., xii anti-Semitism: in Czechoslovakia and Germany, xix–xx, 11, 14, 242n16; Flora Lewis’s book on, 272n9; of Nazi policies in central Europe, 25; as norm, xxiv;Varian Fry on U.S. consulate staff, 132; inVichy France, 30–31, 44, 59–60, 62, 66, 68. See also Jewish refugees; Jews apatrides. See statelessness Argeles, 51, 252n2 Argentina, 94, 254n36 Article 19. See “surrender on demand” rules artists. See intellectuals and artists Atlan, Andre, 199–200 Auschwitz, 141 Australia, 6, 21 Austria, xiv, xix–xxii, 2, 16, 19, 20, 59, 101. See alsoVienna Austrian refugees, 200, 201 Azema,Vincent, 74–76, 78 Baden-Baden, 152, 154 Baer, Richard, 141, 143, 155 Baker, Everett, 8 Ball, Leon “Dick,” 45–47, 51, 69, 73, 74, 243n30 Banyuls, 46, 47, 74–76, 78, 90 Barcelona, 43 Basel, 125, 181 Bates College, 99 Bauer, Leo, 148 Beacon Press, 9 Beau Sejour, 180 Belgian passports, 69 Belgium, 14, 29, 34, 201 Belmont mA, xxiii–xxv, 217, 222 Bénédite, Danny: addition toVarian Fry’s staff, 70; arrest of, 192; association with Noel Field, 209; charged with treason, 159; and closure of Centre Americain de Secours, 133; contact withVarian Fry, 116, 130–31; resistance and relief work of, 156; on Swiss border crossings (1942), 161; Unitarians’ work with, 117; in Vagasse, 159–60, 192; inVarian Fry’s book, 172; onVarian Fry’s replacement, 114–15; work with oSS, 147–50 Bénédite, Theo, 192 Benes, Eduard, 11, 213 Benjamin, Walter, 75 Bergson Group, 184 Berle, Adolph, 113, 195 Bermuda, 80 index | 283 Bernhard, Georg “Denson,” 76 Bern, Switzerland, 137, 146, 148, 160 Bertholet, Hannah, 160 Bertholet, René, 138, 160, 209, 262n18 Bingham, Hiram III, 50 Bingham, Hiram IV, 48–50, 63, 89–90, 93–94, 252n8, 254n36 Black...