Heroic Measures
How a small group of dedicated activists saved some of Europe’s greatest artists from the Nazis April 2007
“With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas. Lisbon became the great embarkation point. But, not everybody could get to Lisbon directly, and so a torturous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up—Paris to Marseille, across the Mediterranean to Oran, then by…