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NOTES
THE ROAD OUT
1. Lisa Fittko, Escape Through the Pyrenees, trans. David Koblick (Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1991), p. 108.
2. Ibid., p. 104.
3. Ibid., p. 103
4. Ibid., p. 109.
5. Ibid., p. 112.
6. Letter dated October 11, 1940, from Frau Gurland to Arkadi Gurland, reprinted in Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship, trans. Harry Zohn (Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1981), p. 225.
7. Ibid., p. 225.
8. Ibid., p. 226.
9. Fittko, Escape Through the Pyrenees, p. 115.
THE PHOTOGRAPH
1. International Herald Tribune, September 25, 1930:
Hitler Warns in Court
Berlin: The tragic scenes enacted in the Place de la RĆ©volution (now Place de la Concorde) in Paris during the French Revolution when the guillotine swept hundreds of aristocratic heads into the basket, will be repeated in Berlin when the Fascists come into power, Adolph [sic] Hitler, the Fascist leader, promised before the criminal chamber of the supreme court in Leipzig today during a further hearing of the trial of three Reichswehr officers who are charged with treason for attempting to establish Fascist cells in the German army. Not only the blood of the nobility will flow in Berlin when the āthird Reichā comes to pass in Germany, according to the leader of the National Socialists, but Socialist proletarians and pacifist professors will also be massacred. In three years, Hitler predicted, his party would be the strongest in the country, and when the day of their triumph came the treaty of Versailles and the Young plan would be tossed in the wastepaper basket.
So sensational indeed was the nature of Hitlerās remarks about what his party proposed to do in the event of its gaining power, that stocks on the Berlin and Frankfort markets, which had recovered in the last two days, broke again sharply today all along the line.
(Reprinted in International Herald Tribune, September 26, 2006.)
2. Authorās interview with Leonora Carrington, Mexico City, July 7, 2003.
THE DINNER PARTY
1. Miriam Davenport, An Unsentimental Education: A Memoir by Miriam Davenport Ebel (1915ā1999), p. 63. Web page: www.varianfry.org/ebel_memoir_en.htm.
2. Mark Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind: The Life of AndrƩ Breton (De Capo Press, New York, 1997), p. 480.
3. Ibid., p. 22.
4. Ibid., p. 402.
5. Ibid., p. 5.
6. Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary, trans. Peter Sedgwick (Writers & Readers, London, 1984), p. 361.
7. Susan Weissman, Victor Serge: The Course Is Set on Hope (Verso, London, 2001), p. 183.
8. William Wiser, The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930s (Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, 2000), p. 243.
9. Andy Marino, A Quiet American: The Secret War of Varian Fry (St. Martinās Press, New York, 1999), p. 213.
THE HEIRESS
1. Mary Jayne Gold, Crossroads Marseilles, 1940 (Doubleday, New York, 1980), p. 25.
2. Wiser, Twi...
