by Julie Orringer
Reviewed by Janet:
Immerse yourself in 1940 Marseille, where Varian Fry has come to do the work of the Emergency Rescue Committee by helping threatened artists and writers escape the grasp of Vichy France and the Nazis. Accustomed to keeping secrets and working in the shadows, Varian’s work with the refugees clearly cannot help everyone, which opens the moral question of the value of each human life.