Mary Jayne Gold
Mary Jayne Gold (* 1909 in Chicago ; † October 5, 1997 in Gassin ) was an American heiress. In 1940 she worked in France for the Emergency Rescue Committee , an aid organization for refugees from the Nazi regime .
biography
Mary Jayne Gold was the second child of the inventor Egbert Habberton Gold and his wife Margaret Jayne Dickey Gold. She attended school in Dobbs Ferry, New York and boarding school in Italy.
In the 1930s she lived in Paris until the Wehrmacht invaded in 1940. She fled to Marseille , where she met Miriam Davenport and talked to her about the situation of the refugees. This is how Gold met Varian Fry and supported the Emergency Rescue Committee both financially and with the interviews.
plant
- Mary Jayne Gold: Crossroads Marseille 1940. A Memoir . Doubleday & Company, New York 1980, ISBN 978-0-385-15618-9
literature
Fiction presentation:
- Eveline Hasler : With the last ship. Varian Fry's dangerous job. A story. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-312-00563-5 .
- Kate Lord Brown: The Sunday girl . Novel. (Title of the original English edition: The House of Dreams), ISBN 978-3-492-30545-7 .
Web links
- Mary Jayne Gold on the Varian Fry Institute website
- CROSSROADS MARSEILLES 1940 by Mary Jayne Gold, a synopsis by the author on the website of the Varian Fry Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ Surrender on Demand: The Lifelong Friendship of Mary Jayne Gold and Miriam Davenport , meanderingmichiganhistory.weebly.com
- ^ Mary Jayne Gold, 88, Heiress Who Helped Artists Flee Nazis
- ↑ limited preview in the Google book search
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gold, Mary Jayne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American heiress and humanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1997 |
| Place of death | Gassin |