Miriam Davenport

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Miriam Davenport , married Miriam Davenport Burke Ebel (born June 6, 1915 in Boston , Massachusetts , † September 13, 1999 in Mount Pleasant , Michigan ), was an American painter and sculptor. In 1940 she worked in France for the Emergency Rescue Committee , an aid organization for refugees from the Nazi regime .

biography

Miriam Davenport earned a bachelor's degree in history of art and architecture from Smith College . She then studied art in New York, from 1938 in Paris, where she met her future first husband, Rudolph Treo, an art student from Ljubljana, Slovenia . After the Wehrmacht marched into Paris in 1940, she and thousands of other refugees fled to the "Free Zone" in southern France in August. In Marseille , she and Mary Jayne Gold belonged to the inner circle of Varian Fry's rescue network Emergency Rescue Committee , which enabled about 2,000 people to flee from the National Socialists . Those rescued by Frys and their efforts include the painter Marc Chagall , the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz , the writers Franz Werfel , Hannah Arendt , Hans Habe and the biochemist Otto Meyerhof . In November 1940 her visa expired and she had to leave France. She went to Yugoslavia, where she married Rudolph Treo in 1941 and returned to the USA with him in December of the same year. In the following years she worked for the International Rescue and Relief Committee and other organizations.

In the 1950s she completed her artistic training and exhibited her works as a painter and sculptor. After the death of her second husband William LM Burke in 1961, she married the archaeologist Charles Ebel. She later received her PhD from the University of Iowa on 18th Century French Literature. She had a lifelong friendship with the American Mary Jayne Gold.

Miriam Davenport received from the Israeli government the honorable title of Righteous Among the Nations (Righteous Gentile) as one of the Christians who had risked their lives to save Jews.

literature

  • Ebel, Miriam Davenport Burke. In: Carl J. Schneider, Dorothy Schneider: Eyewitness History: World War II , Infobase Publishing, 2014, p. 358. ISBN 1-4381-0890-7 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  • Davenport, Miriam. In: Susan Weissman: Victor Serge. A biography. Verso Books, 2014, p. 2023. ISBN 1-7816-8050-7 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • Mary Jayne Gold: Crossroads Marseille 1940. A Memoir . Doubleday & Company, New York 1980, ISBN 978-0-385-15618-9
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  1. ↑ Andy Marino: American Pimpernel: The Man Who Saved the Artists on Hitler's Death List , 1999, limited preview in Google book search
  2. ↑ a b Ebel, Miriam Davenport Burke. In: Carl J. Schneider, Dorothy Schneider: Eyewitness History: World War II , Infobase Publishing, 2014, p. 358. ISBN 1-4381-0890-7
  3. ^ Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee , holocaustrescue.org
  4. ↑ Kathy Warnes: Surrender on Demand: The Lifelong Friendship of Mary Jayne Gold and Miriam Davenport , meanderingmichiganhistory.weebly.com
  5. ↑ Carl J. Schneider; Dorothy Schneider. World War II . Infobase Publishing; 2009, ISBN 978-1-4381-0890-2 , page 358.
  6. ↑ Kathy Warnes: Surrender on Demand: The Lifelong Friendship of Mary Jayne Gold and Miriam Davenport , Meandering Michigan History
  7. ↑ Ebel (Davenport), Miriam. Righteous Gentile , Holocaust Memorial Center, May 1999
personal data
SURNAME Davenport, Miriam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ebel, Miriam Davenport Burke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1999
Place of death Mount Pleasant , Michigan , United States