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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mary Jayne Gold (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mary Jayne Gold, born 1909 - died October 5, 1997, was an American heiress who played an important role helping European Jews and intellectuals escape the Nazis in 1940-41, during World War II.
Mary Jayne Gold helped subsidize the operation which is credited with participating in the rescue of some 2,000 refugees, Among the escapees were notables such as the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, artist Marc Chagall, writer Hannah Arendt and Nobel Prize winner, Otto Meyerhof.
In fall 1941, Mary Jayne Gold returned to the U.S. After the war, she divided her time between her apartment in New York City and a house she had built in the village of Gassin, Var, not far from St.
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 Amazon.com: Crossroads Marseilles, 1940: Books: Mary Jayne Gold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mary Jayne Gold's contribution to history is little more than a footnote but I do wish that Andy Marino had not given her such short shrift in his new book on this episode.
Mary Jayne Gold was a rather attractive young lady with a lot of money, who decided to stay on in France long after the German invasion simply because she didn't want to go home.
Gold's contribution to history will be little more than a footnote but I do wish that Andy Marino had not given her such short shrift in his new book on this episode.
www.amazon.com /Crossroads-Marseilles-1940-Mary-Jayne/dp/0385156189   (1585 words)

  
 Pierre Sauvage on "Americans Who Cared" (1996): Varian Fry and Mary Jayne Gold (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The author of the memoir is a woman named Mary Jayne Gold, who is still very much with us today, and I wish that she could have been here this evening.
Mary Jayne self-consciously made her way through people who had been standing forlornly for hours and hours and hours outside of what was, as it happens, a pretty little castle in a park.
Mary Jayne Gold soon learned that there was something to do in Marseille, and she stayed on for a year, her path having crossed that of two men, one of them being a fellow American who had himself just arrived from New York on a singular mission.
www.varianfry.org.cob-web.org:8888 /sauvage_americans_cared2_en.htm   (2643 words)

  
 Varian Fry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Among Fry's closest associates were Americans Miriam Davenport, a former art student at the Sorbonne, and the beautiful heiress Mary Jayne Gold, a lover of the arts and the "good life" who had come to Paris in the early 1930s.
In 1967, the government of France recognized his heroic contribution to freedom with the Legion of Honor.
Mary Jayne Gold's 1980 book titled Crossroads Marseilles 1940 sparked an interest in Fry and his heroic efforts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Varian_Fry   (756 words)

  
 Marigold Woods Homeowners Association -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gold entered the channel leading from Lake Michigan into Lake Macatawa at Holland, and examined the shady edges of the smaller lake.  The search ended at Point Superior, a small densely wooded peninsula on the north side of the lake.
Gold, his wife, Margaret, their sons, Egbert H., Jr., and Samuel Dickey, and one daughter, Mary Jayne, spent their summers until Mr.
Gold's passing in 1968, Marigold Lodge was left to her daughter, Mary Jayne.  The two sons had preceded their mother in death.
marigoldwoods.com /sub_category_list.asp?category=5&title=History+...   (235 words)

  
 "Varian Fry in Marseille" by Pierre Sauvage
Mary Jayne Gold had escaped the world in which she had been destined to live.
Gold was not the air-headed blonde evoked in “A Quiet American.” After all, she understood what few Americans seemed to understand at that time—and perhaps fewer still in her waspy, prosperous social class: civilization as they knew it was at stake with the rise of Nazism.
In October, Mary Jayne Gold, Miriam Davenport, Theo Bénédite (Daniel Bénédite’s English wife) and Jean Gemähling stumbled on a large villa on the outskirts of Marseille.
www.chambon.org /sauvage_fry_oxford.htm   (11951 words)

  
 Hope College: Hope College: Joint Archives of Holland: Marigold Lodge
The Gold family is further notable for Mary Jayne Gold's WW II involvement (with Varian Fry) in aiding European Jews to emigrate and to escape Nazi persecution.
Gold searched the Lake Michigan coast to find a serene place where he could build a summer vacation home to escape busy Chicago, and decided to settle at Point Superior on adjacent Black Lake (Lake Macatawa).
The Gold family is further notable for Mary Jayne Gold's WW II involvement in aiding European Jews to emigrate and to escape concentration camps and other Nazi persecution.
www.hope.edu /resources/arc/collections/registers/hope/MARIGOLD.txt   (430 words)

  
 Mary Jayne Gold obituary in New York Times
PARIS — Mary Jayne Gold, a Chicago heiress who used some of her fortune to help prominent Jewish or anti-Nazi artists like Chagall flee Nazi-occupied France, died on Sunday at her home near St.-Tropez on the French Riviera.
Miss Gold, who attended finishing school in Italy and joined the lively Paris scene in the 1930s, moved to Marseilles shortly after German forces invaded France in June 1940.
Before Miss Gold and Fry were forced to leave Marseilles in 1941, the committee is reported to have arranged the escape of some 2,000 refugees, including the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz and the writer Hannah Arendt, by giving them false passports and leading them to escape routes, often across the Pyrenees.
www.varianfry.org /gold_nyt_en.htm   (416 words)

  
 NewStandard: 10/7/97   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
PARIS -- Mary Jayne Gold, an American socialite who helped painters Marc Chagall, Max Ernst and about 2,000 other Jews and anti-Nazis escape from France during World War II, has died.
Gold, who bankrolled the flight of the artists and intellectuals, died Sunday at her Riviera villa in Gassin, near Saint Tropez, said her great-nephew, Thor Gold.
Filmmaker Pierre Sauvage, a Los Angeles friend of Gold, said she "felt that only one year in her life really mattered and it was the year she spent in Marseille."
www.s-t.com /daily/10-97/10-07-97/c04wn987.htm   (331 words)

  
 Women Born Rich, Made Good? | Ask MetaFilter
Christy Todd Whitman, Mary Landrieu, and other women from political dynasties have picked up their family's political reins--or gone into political reporting, such as Cokie Roberts.
Although much of her life and fame were inextricably bound to her beloved Percy, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley arguably belongs to the "well-born, yet self-made" parameters you set out.
Of the two, Mary, the creator of "The Modern Prometheus" and "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," has had by far the greater social impact.
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 Amazon.com: "Mary Jayne Gold": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
One of his other associates was the flamboyant American Mary Jayne Gold: "[She] was young, blond, and beautiful.
June when almost the entire country was on the move, Miriam had met in Toulouse a young American WASP named Mary Jayne Gold, an heiress of considerable wealth.
Mary Jayne was a late version of what was called a "flapper" in the twenties-a...
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 IsraelFaxx.com newsletter: 7fax1009.txt
American socialite Mary Jayne Gold died Sunday, after an exemplary career just prior to World War 2, in helping many intellectual Jews escape Hitler's solution to the "Jewish problem." The committee she founded rescued 1,000 artists, writers and others.
Gold's passing at the age of 88 is mourned as much as her selfless, glorious life is celebrated.
The trial of 87-year-old Maurice Papon, a former French government budget minister accused of active involvement in the deportation of Jews from France to Nazi death-camps during World War 2, has opened in Bordeaux.
www.israelfaxx.com /webarchive/1997/10/7fax1009.html   (709 words)

  
 Rosemary Sullivan | Straight.com Vancouver
But there was a moment when Mary Jayne...said, 'I would have liked to have done a little more, but I had no standing and today I would have demanded more.' It struck me that the women...were distracted by romantic engagements.
Mary Jayne is Mary Jayne Gold, an American heiress who chose to remain in Vichy France to help the refugees of Villa Air-Bel.
A fierce iconoclast, she donated her plane to the French Air Force to combat the Germans, ploughed her personal fortune into the CAS, and took a “fl-hearted” lover named Killer.
www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=21173   (620 words)

  
 Varian Fry (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Among Fry's closest associates were Americans Miriam Davenport, a former art student at the Sorbonne, and the beautiful U.S. heiress, Mary Jayne Gold, a lover of the arts and the "good life" who had come to Paris in the early 1930s.
In a December 1942 issue of the New Republic, he wrote a scathing article titled: "The Massacre of Jews in Europe." In 1967, the government of France recognized his heroic contribution to freedom with the Legion of Honor.
Beyond that, he was basically forgotten in life and death until recent years when his deeds began to be recognized after Mary Jayne Golds 1980 book titled Crossroads Marseilles 1940, sparked an interest in Fry and his heroic efforts.
varian-fry.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888   (591 words)

  
 "Crossroads Marseilles 1940" by Mary Jayne Gold--synopsis (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He was held in the Fort St Nicolas in the Marseille harbor pending trial.
Miriam Davenport Ebel (right) visits Mary Jayne Gold at the latter's villa in Gassin, France, in 1997, two months before Ms.
Thanks to the efforts of my new friend Miriam Davenport, I next became a member of Varian Fry's American Relief Center (the Marseille operation of New York's Emergency Rescue Committee), which performed an amazing Scarlet Pimpernel operation after the fall of France.
www.varianfry.org.cob-web.org:8888 /gold_cm_summary_en.htm   (1025 words)

  
 Mary Jayne Gold: Helped Chagall, others escape Nazis
Gold, who bankrolled the flight of the artists and intellectuals, died Sunday, Oct.
She had suffered from pancreatic cancer, he said in Los Angeles on Monday.
Filmmaker Pierre Sauvage, a Los Angeles friend of Gold's, said she "felt that only one year in her life really mattered, and it was the year she spent in Marseille."
www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/art/deaths/1006gold.html   (439 words)

  
 Revisiting a haven for intellectuals fleeing the Nazis - The Boston Globe
And it is there that her extraordinary cast of characters comes together.
Among the refugees were the surrealist writer André Breton and the Soviet exile Victor Serge, and among their risk-taking rescuers, the Harvard graduate Varian Fry and the Chicago heiress Mary Jayne Gold.
Sullivan first heard the story of the villa and its occupants from the English painter Leonora Carrington, whose lover, the surrealist painter Max Ernst, had stayed briefly at the villa.
www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2006/11/28/revisiting_a_haven_for_intellectuals_fleeing_the_nazis   (639 words)

  
 American Track and Field -- Regional News Article
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Gail Devers won her third career world indoor title in the 60 meters Friday at the IAAF World Indoor Track and Field Championships, and Shawn Crawford added a silver in the men's 60m to cap a successful day for Team USA at Budapest Sportarena.
Despite arriving in Budapest Thursday afternoon, the two-time Olympic 100m gold medalist showed no jet lag and posted the fastest first-round time of 7.15, while easing up at the end of her race.
Mary Jayne Harrelson placed fifth in the heat, in 2:05.16, behind Ceplak's 2:01.48, and did not advance.
www.american-trackandfield.com /news/worldindoorchamps04deversgold.html   (2054 words)

  
 Mary Jayne Gold (1912-1997), aide to Varian Fry
Mary Jayne Gold (1912-1997), aide to Varian Fry
Socialite who helped Chagall, others escape Nazis dies at 88, AP dispatch, as carried in the Houston Chronicle (and throughout the world), on the death of Mary Jayne Gold—including the egregious inaccuracy that Varian Fry helped her organize the rescue effort...
Special Report on six rescuers during the Holocaust, including Mary Jayne Gold.
www.chambon.org /gold_en.htm   (159 words)

  
 Doug Fabian - the Mav: Re: DavidK researches the Mav -- Doug Fabian
With stock prices overall floating near all-time highs, this is a market that people fear more than love, even though they stay put because of a lack of better alternatives.
For Doug Fabian and his sister Mary Jayne Fabian Barnett, that fear is a potential gold mine.
Their Huntington Beach-based investment advisory service -- one of the nation's best-known stock-market timers for small investors -- is in the midst of a new ad campaign that warns bluntly of the historic ravages of bear markets.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/50402/620217   (422 words)

  
 Ernst Kris Papers (Library of Congress)
Letters exchanged with Anna Freud and Princess Marie Bonaparte relate mostly to the publication of Sigmund Freud's letters to Wilhelm Fliess in The Origins of Psychoanalysis in 1954.
Articles and reviews pertain to his early career as associate curator at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s, and many of the writings reflect the intersection of Kris's two areas of study.
Research papers issued by the Research Project on Totalitarian Communication relating to psychological analysis of Nazi broadcast propaganda during World War II were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/kris.html   (1575 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Profil von David S. Rupp: Rezensionen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I had just finished reading Mary Jayne Gold's Memoir of Marseilles, 1940-1941 in which she recounts her version of that same rescue effort.
Although deceased now after a long life, she genuinely felt that those were really the only useful years of her life.
Although many of the players on that Marseilles stage have now passed from the scene, including Varian Fry, Marino had the good fortune of being able to interview many of those still living.
www.amazon.de /gp/cdp/member-reviews/A1B687TC459X0L   (1392 words)

  
 The Camargo Foundation : Fellow Project Details
A rich young American, Mary Jayne Gold, and members of the Centre Américain de Secours, an organization headed by Varian Fry, had rented the villa.
Fry had been sent by the Emergency Rescue Committee in New York in August 1940 to save European artists and anti-Nazi activists fllisted by Hitler's Third Reich and at risk of imprisonment in French internment camps or of deportation back to Germany.
Through the course of the next nine years as the fates of individuals interconnect, a story of the prelude to and unfolding of war is recorded.
www.camargofoundation.org /fellowdetails_new05.asp?recno=%0D%0A654   (421 words)

  
 Research | Library | Bibliography
Includes a sidebar on the life of the expatriate American heiress, Mary Jayne Gold, who assisted Fry while he was in Marseille.
Includes statements by Lisa Fittko, Mary Jayne Gold and Jean Gemahling, among others.
Also provides information about forthcoming film projects based on the books Crossroads Marseille by Mary Jayne Gold and Resistance of the Heart by Nathan Stoltzfus.
ushmm.org /research/library/bibliography/index.php?content=varian_fry   (2131 words)

  
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Chensoff looks at courageous non-Jews whose sense of outrage and decency moved them to risk their own lives to try to save European Jews from the furnace of hatred that was the Holocaust.
The article provides profiles of several heroes of `Tzedek', or 'Righteousness', including Berthold Beitz, Irena Sendler, Mary Jayne Gold, and Giorgio Perlasca.
Sixty years ago, on January 27th, 1945, the Red Army liberated what was left of the Auschwitz extermination camp.
www.linnbenton.edu /library/Holocaust3A.html   (336 words)

  
 Department of English at the University of Toronto - Faculty
Drawing on texts by Elizabeth Gaskell (Mary Barton, Ruth) George Eliot (Adam Bede, Middlemarch) and the Brontës (Agnes Grey, Villete) as well as a range of non-canonical fictional texts, Matus explores the dialogue between literary and other discourses of sexuality.
In a series of essays, linked by shared concerns and similar topics, she shows how literary, social and medical texts from the 1840s to the 1870s construct multiple and contesting versions of womanhood, motherhood and female sexuality.
Daniel White provides a clear and useful introduction to Dissenting communities, focusing on Anna Barbauld and her familial network of heterodox "liberal" Dissenters whose religious, literary, educational, political, and economic activities shaped the public culture of early Romanticism in England.
www.utoronto.ca /english/faculty/bookshelf.htm   (10048 words)

  
 Previewing the field.(Sports) - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical
She was named Woman of the Year for 2001 by the bible of the sport, Track and Field News.
Regina Jacobs can, and the two-time World Championships silver medalist headlines the field in the 1,500, which she won in the USATF meet here last year and in the Olympic Trials the year before, two of her nine national titles at this distance.
Runyan, a national champion in the 5,000 here last year and the indoor American record-holder in that event, is the featured athlete in a field that includes Sonia O'Sullivan of Ireland, the World Championships gold medalist in 1995.
goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-1708182_ITM   (1877 words)

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