May 16, 2008

News Release from
The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies

March 24, 2005

Marc Chagall's Grand-Daughter to Speak at Palm Beach Event Honoring Americans Who Rescued Chagall from the Nazis

Bella Chagall Meyer, grand-daughter of the famous artist Marc Chagall, will be the featured speaker at an April 3 event in Palm Beach honoring the Americans who rescued Chagall from the Nazis.

The gala cultural event will be held at the prestigious Wally Findlay Galleries at 165 Worth Avenue,  Palm Beach, on April 3.  It will include a sale and exhibit of important Jewish artists, including Chagall; a cocktail reception at 6:00 pm; and a private dinner with Ms. Chagall-Meyer at 8:00 pm

The event will benefit The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, a research and public education institute that focuses on America's response to the Holocaust and Americans who promoted rescue.  The April 3 event will pay tribute to the Holocaust rescue hero Varian Fry, who, in 1940-41, travelled from New York to rescue several thousand artists, writers and musicians -- including Marc Chagall-- from the Nazi puppet regime of Vichy France. 

Among those rescued by Fry, in addition to Chagall, were such cultural luminaries as Hannah Arendt, Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Franz Werfel , Jacques Lipchitz, Max Ernst, Lion Feuchtwanger , Heinrich Mann, Alma Mahler.

James R. Borynack, chairman and CEO of Wally Findlay Galleries International, Inc. is co-chairman of the event along with Robin Bernstein and Rita Stein.




ABOUT THE WYMAN INSTITUTE: The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, located on the campus of Gratz College (near Philadelphia), is a research and education institute focusing on America's response to the Holocaust. It is named in honor of the eminent historian and author of the 1984 best-seller The Abandonment of the Jews, the most important and influential book concerning the U.S. response to the Nazi genocide.

The Institute's Advisory Committee includes Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, Members of Congress, and other luminaries. The Institute's Academic Council includes 45 leading professors of the Holocaust, American history, and Jewish history. The Institute's Arts & Letters Council, chaired by Cynthia Ozick, includes prominent artists, writers, and filmmakers. (A complete list is available upon request.)

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