When it was learned that the armistice that France made with Germany in June 1940 contained a clause providing for the "surrender on demand" of German refugees, Varian Fry, a young editor from New York, was sent to Marseilles, France, as the representative of a private American relief committee. Working day and night, often in opposition to French and even obstructionist American authorities, Fry assembled an unlikely band of associates and constructed a clandestine rescue network.
				Assignment: Rescue, The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee, April 1993 Courtesy United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photograph: Ed Owen This project was originally organized by and presented at The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.