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Villa Air-Bel (Paperback)
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Villa Air-Bel (Paperback)
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List price R378
Loot Price R345
Discovery Miles 3 450
You Save R33 (9%)
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The Franco-German armistice, signed in June 1940 following the
German invasion of France, called on the Vichy government to
surrender on demand all refugees considered enemies of the Third
Reich. Suddenly, thousands of artists, scientists and other
intellectuals feared for their lives. The Emergency Rescue
Committee, based in New York, compiled a list of two hundred people
it considered the most endangered, including artists and writers
Andre Breton, Max Ernst and Benjamin Peret. The committee sent
Varian Fry to set up its headquarters in Marseilles, with the aim
of helping these artists to escape. A number of them were sheltered
at the Villa Air-Bel. Amidst the chaos and terror of wartime
France, the villa became an oasis of calm, and a centre of
creativity. Rosemary Sullivan explores the diaries, memoirs and
letters of the individuals involved as she uncovers their private
worlds and the web of relationships they developed. Central to her
task is to understand what it must feel like to move from freedom
to occupation: to feel threatened, administered, restrained. Villa
Air-Bel brilliantly dramatizes the slow, relentless process by
which ordinary lives were turned into lives lived in terror. In the
end every artist in the house, as well as two thousand others,
found asylum outside of France through the courageous intervention
of Fry and his committee.
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