Varian Fry [SEP] place of birth
in New York City. His parents were Lillian (Mackey) and Arthur Fry, a manager of the Wall Street firm Carlysle and Mellick. The family moved to Ridgewood, New Jersey, in 1910. He grew up in Ridgewood and enjoyed bird-watching and reading. During World War I, at 9 years of age, Fry and friends conducted a fund-raising bazaar for the American Red Cross that included a vaudeville show, an ice cream stand and fish pond. He was educated at Hotchkiss School from 1922 to
/West Berlin Wall area in the Berlin borough of "Mitte at Potsdamer Platz" was named "Varian-Fry-Straße" in recognition of his work.
- 2005 - A street in his home town of Ridgewood, New Jersey, was renamed "Varian Fry Way".
- 2007 - On October 15, 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives honored Varian Fry on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
- 2019 - Julie Orringer's historical novel "The Flight Portfolio" is a fictionalized account of