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Noted - Marc Chagall and IRC’s Beginnings

Posted by The IRC on September 14th, 2007

Detail of artist Marc Chagall’s contribution to the IRC’s ‘Flight‘ portfolio

A review of the new biography of Marc Chagall by Jonathan Wilson in The New York Times Book Review on Sunday noted that Varian Fry, of the Emergency Rescue Committee, the IRC’s predecessor, saved Chagall and more than 1,500 other refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe.

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