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"Weapons of the Spirit" Chambon Foundation Documentaries Varian Fry

And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry and the Refugee Crisis, Marseille, 1940-1941 (Pierre Sauvage, upcoming), feature-length documentary in production. A non-Jewish New York intellectual named Varian Fry led the most determined and most successful private American rescue operation during World War II, helping to save some 2,000 people, including many prominent artists and intellectuals. In part, a reflection on the American response to the refugee crisis in Europe in 1940-41 and the beginnings of the Final Solution, this account chronicles Fry rescue mission within the context of its times and with a particular emphasis on the remarkable Americans who worked with Fry.

	Weapons of the Spirit—30th-anniversary edition (Pierre Sauvage, 1989-2019), 93 min., with 25-min. interview of the filmmaker by Bill Moyers (1990), available from the Chambon Foundation
	Weapons of the Spirit—Classroom Version—30th-anniversary edition (Pierre Sauvage, 1990-2019), 40 min., with 25-min. interview of the filmmaker by Bill Moyers (1990) available from the Chambon Foundation
	Les armes de l'esprit—30th-anniversary edition (Pierre Sauvage, 1989-2019), 93 min, with French narration and no subtitles, available from the Chambon Foundation
	*Yiddish: the Mame-Loshn* (Pierre Sauvage, 1979-2019), 55 min.

Nor Idly By—Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust (Pierre Sauvage, 2019). 59 min.

We Were There—Christians and the Holocaust (Pierre Sauvage, 2019), 58 min.

The Optimists—The Story of the Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews From the Holocaust
(Jacky Comforty, 2002), a presentation of Comforty Media Concepts and the Chambon Foundation

In the Shadow of Memory (on Lidice and its repercussions)
(Jacky Comforty, director; Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller, producers; 1998), sponsored by the Chambon Foundation, available from New Day Films

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