Fry had come to France on a personal mission to help members of Europe 's intellectual and artistic community escape the Nazi threat .
In Marseille she met Miriam Davenport , an American art student , and Varian Fry , an American journalist and intellectual .
journalist had come to France on a personal mission to help members of Europe 's intellectual and artistic community escape the Nazi threat .
In Marseille she met Miriam Davenport , an American art student , and Varian Fry , an American journalist and intellectual .