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| | Academy Award Winning Actor William Hurt to Headline Holocaust Conference; He Portrayed Heroic Rescuer of Chagall & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Academy Award winning actor William Hurt, who starred in the dramatic film "Varian's War," about Holocaust rescuer and journalist Varian Fry, will headline an event honoring Fry and other Americans who saved Jewish refugees from Hitler. |
 | | On Sunday, Sept. 18, Hurt will headline "America and the Holocaust: Politics, Art, History," the third national conference of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which will be held at the Fordham University School of Law, 140 West 62 St., New York City. |
 | | Joining Hurt at the conference will be Annette Fry, wife of the late Varian Fry; William Bingham, son of U.S. diplomat Hiram Bingham IV, who secretly assisted Fry in the rescue effort; and Dr. Bella Chagall Meyer, granddaughter of painter Marc Chagall, the most famous of the over 2,000 refugees rescued by Fry and Bingham. |
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