His goal was to help those on the list escape to America, but after arriving in France, Fry realized the situation was more desperate and he expanded his rescue program. Despite the increasing threat from Gestapo and French authorities, American bureaucracy and lack of funds, Fry would eventually save thousands of people. Before he was arrested and deported in 1942, Fry had saved, among others, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Alma Mahler, Andre Breton and Heinrich Mann. Runs 1 hour. In the society we live in today, it is almost hard to imagine the situation for artists in the early forties in Europe, when the subject matter of a painting or book could mean arrest, imprisonment, even execution.
Artists enjoy unprecedented freedom in the United States today.
Others dismiss any relationship.