Please join us on Zoom for this discussion of Julie Orringer’s “The Flight Portfolio,” at our monthly book club, hosted by HMTC’s Louis Posner Memorial Library.

Varian Fry, an affluent Protestant New Yorker, drawn to Europe’s art, music and literary heritage, finds nothing but barbarism in France in 1940. He heads to Marseille as a volunteer in a privately organized mission, the Emergency Rescue Committee, whose mandate, encouraged by Eleanor Roosevelt, is to facilitate escape for luminaries in the arts, virtually all of them Jews. His experiences there, told in fictional form, fairly bristle with peril, subterfuge, forgery and unrelenting hostility. But in the end he saves the lives of more than 2,000 desperate souls.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Linda Burghardt, scholar-in-residence and discussion leader, at lindaburghardt@hmtcli.org or 516.571.8040.