Gare St. Charles. To this day, Gare St. Charles remains the central arrival and departure point in Marseille, where routes to and from Spain, Italy and Paris/northern France converge.
Boulevard d'Athènes. From the station, you can see down Boulevard d'Athènes to the city centre. This was also the location of the Hotel Splendide, where Varian Fry set up his first base for his aid organisation, the Centre Americain de Secours, in 1940.
Rue Grignan 60. This was the location of the official office of the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) or Centre de Secours.
Quai des Belges. At the Quai des Belges in the Vieux Port, those waiting for visas and ship passages met in cafés, such as the Café Brûleur de Loups.
Cahiers du Sud at the Vieux Port, Cours Jean-Ballard, was the headquarters of the literary magazine published by Jean Ballard, in which Antonin Artaud, Paul Eluard, Michel Leiris, Simone Weil and Marguerite Yourcenar, among others, published their work.
Dorade, restaurant at the Vieux Port, meeting place of Albert O. Hirschman and Varian Fry to organise passages for refugees and those being persecuted.
Pannier, new development in the historic Pannier district
Mémorial des Déportations, housed in a former Südwall bunker at the Vieux Port, at the foot of Fort Saint-Jean, overlooking the destroyed old town district of Pannier.
Cours Belsunce, where Anna Seghers lived, very close to where the Centre Bourse shopping centre and the huge Alcazar library are located today, and wrote her famous Marseille novel ‘Transit’.
Le mouvement Emmaüs, Rue Colbert. Here you can buy second-hand items, furniture, clothes and household appliances and get free advice.
Cours Joseph Thierry, formerly the seat of the Mexican Embassy. Here, Mexican Consul General Gilberto Bosques issued visas to refugees and organised aid for Republican Spanish fighters who had fled Franco across the Pyrenees to southern France.
Marseille, the city of seven hills, Belsunce
Traverse Ma Mye, home and practice of Jésus Argemi Melián, doctor from Barcelona, who fought against the Francoist putschists in Barcelona. In 1939, he had to flee across the Pyrenees to France and was interned in Camp d'Argelès-sur-Mer. He was able to escape from there after six months and found shelter in the Chartreuse de Montrieux in the Var department, where he provided medical care to Resistance fighters in a secret hospital in the agricultural part of the monastery from 1939 to 1944. After 1945, he opened a medical practice in Marseille. His story only became known after his death.
Former location of the Coopérative des Croque-Fruits near the railway station, now covered by a park and a motorway. Many illegal refugees, including many artists, were employed by the cooperative and were thus able to survive while waiting for exit visas in Marseille.
L'après M, Ste-Marthe, the former fast food restaurant is run by former employees, who serve homemade food and distribute free food to neighbours in need.
Chateau Le Pastre, a refuge for endangered artists and intellectuals and the seat of the American Consulate, a visa office for anyone who did not have an American passport.
In Pointe Rouge, Hertha Pauli and Walter Mehring stayed at the Hotel Mistral until they were able to leave Europe with the help of the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC).
