Valeriu Marcu
Encyclopedia
Valeriu Marcu was a Romania
n poet, writer and historian. He wrote the first biography of Lenin.
Marcu, who was Jewish, migrated from Germany to Austria, and then to France, where he and his wife Eva settled in Nice
in 1933. In 1940 Varian Fry
helped the family get papers to leave France.
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
n poet, writer and historian. He wrote the first biography of Lenin.
Marcu, who was Jewish, migrated from Germany to Austria, and then to France, where he and his wife Eva settled in Nice
Nice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
in 1933. In 1940 Varian Fry
Varian Fry
Varian Mackey Fry was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.-Early life:...
helped the family get papers to leave France.
Works
- Lenin: 30 Jahre Russland, 1927. Translated by E. W. DickesE. W. DickesErnest Walter Dickes, most commonly known as E. W. Dickes was an English journalist for the Manchester Guardian, and translator of over seventy books.-Life:...
as Lenin. New York: Macmillan Co., 1928. - Männer und Mächte der Gegenwar, 1930. Translated by EdenEden PaulMaurice Eden Paul, most commonly known simply as Eden Paul was a socialist physician, writer and translator.-Biography:...
and Cedar PaulCedar PaulCedar Paul, née Gertrude Mary Davenport was a singer, author, translator and journalist.-Biography:Gertrude Davenport came from a musical family: she was the grand-daughter of the composer George Alexander Macfarren and the daughter of the composer Francis William Davenport...
as Men and forces of our time, 1931