Catherine Taub, Ridgewood activist and historian of her hometown’s ‘American Schindler,’ dies at 64

Varian Fry ( wymaninstitute.org )

Catherine Taub, Ridgewood activist and historian of her hometown’s ‘American Schindler,’ dies at 64
Thursday May 30, 2013, 6:50 PM
BY  JAY LEVIN
STAFF WRITER
The Record

Until Catherine Taub visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 15 years ago, few knew that Varian Fry, who helped spare more than 2,000 artists, writers and others from Nazi persecution, spent his childhood in Ridgewood.

Ms. Taub, a village resident who died Tuesday at age 64, dedicated herself to perpetuating the legacy of the man known as the “American Schindler.”

She led the drive to rename a portion of South Monroe Street, outside West Side Presbyterian Church, “Varian Fry Way.” She got the Postal Service to issue a commemorative postmark in 2007, on the 100th anniversary of Fry’s birth. And she administered the Varian Fry Humanitarian Scholarship, awarded to a Ridgewood High School senior demonstrating the same “commitment to care” displayed by Fry.

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