July 28, 2010 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 13 Area A traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Varian Fry, Assignment: Rescue, 1940-1941,” will be on display at Ramapo College from Sept. 1 through Oct. 8 in the Pascal Gallery, Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts. The exhibition is sponsored by Ramapo College’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in cooperation with the Berrie Center Art Galleries and the Committee to Honor Varian Fry, a former resident of Ridgewood. The exhibition and all events associated with it are free and open to the public. “Varian Fry, Assignment: Rescue, 1940-1941” tells the story of an unlikely hero from Ridgewood, New Jersey who became the first American, and one of only three, to be designated “Righteous Among the Nations,” an award from Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, that honors non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. Fry was instrumental in rescuing some 2,000 persons from Nazi oppression. Although Fry’s original assignment on behalf of the Emergency Rescue Committee (now the International Rescue Committee) was to bring a group of 200 refugee artists and intellectuals out of Nazi-controlled Europe, he unilaterally widened his mission upon his arrival in Marseilles when he recognized how many more people needed his help. As a result, he was responsible for saving not only the likes of Marc Chagall, Marcel Duch- Varian Fry exhibit to open at Ramapo College amp, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, and Hannah Arendt, but also a large number of ordinary Jews who were in immediate danger of Nazi persecution. Fry ignored repeated entreaties from the American government to return to the United States. In September 1941, the Vichy French government finally ousted him for “protecting Jews and anti-Nazis.” Although most of the recognition Fry received was posthumous, shortly before his premature death in 1967 he was inducted into France’s Legion of Honor. Born in New York City on Oct. 15, 1907, Fry was (continued on page 17) In recognition of National Fire Prevention Week, the 2010 Public Safety Expo will take place on Saturday, Oct. 2 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the grounds of the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute, 281 Campgaw Road, Mahwah. The expo is open to the public, and admission is free. The institute will also be celebrating 45 years as a nationally recognized training and education facility for public safety personnel, businesses, schools, and the general public. Throughout the day, there will be live fire demonstrations, tactical law enforcement and emergency response drills, and fun-filled activities for the entire family. 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