Sign up for email updates on upcoming Talks and Performances.Įxperience the Museum as a member and take advantage of unlimited free admission, valuable discounts, private previews and events, and much more! Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.Ĭo-Presented with the Jewish Book Council. Orringer is the winner of The Paris Review‘s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization, Fry set up an underground railroad that led over the Pyrenees mountains, into Spain, and finally to Lisbon, where refugees including Hannah Arendt, Marcel Duchamp, and Marc Chagall embarked for safer ports. Set in occupied Europe, this gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Varian Fry’s extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust.
If you loved Schindler's List, All the Light We Cannot See or The Tattooist of Auschwitz, you'll adore Transatlantic, previously published as The Flight Portfolio.Join Julie Orringner, best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge, for a talk about her latest book, The Flight Porfolio. And as the Nazis begin to get word of Varian's secret operation, he must dig deep and find the courage to rescue as many innocents as he can.Įven though his own life may be in terrible danger.Īn incredibly compelling and heart-wrenching historical novel, inspired by a powerful true story, about the extraordinary courage and friendships forged during humanity's darkest hour. Does Varian have the right to choose who to save?Īt home in New York, making a list seemed hard, but in the middle of humanity's darkest hour, Varian must do all he can to help. He smuggles them over the Pyrenees mountains and across the sea hidden in boats, but every day hundreds of ordinary Jewish refugees beg him for help. With borders closing around him, Varian tries to track down those on his list renowned artists like Marc Chagall, who cannot believe that he will ever be unsafe in the country he loves. Varian Fry, a young American journalist, arrives in Marseille armed only with three thousand dollars and a list of writers, thinkers and artists he hopes to rescue - so long as the Nazis don't get to them first. In the middle of a devastating war, how many lives can you save? Print Transatlantic (The Flight Portfolio TV Tie-In)ġ940, France.
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