Ensor, James Sidney
(1860 - 1949), Belgian painter and illustrator, known as the painter of masks.
Entré Aide Autrichienne
Conservative Austrian aid organisation whose members were mostly Catholic with monarchist leanings
Eretz Israel
Term from the biblical description of Israel as the Promised Land. Zionism took up the term to express the desire to return there.
Évian Conference
From 6 to 15 July 1938, 32 countries met in Évian in western France to negotiate immigration quotas and possible safe havens for Jewish refugees from the German Reich.
Expressionism:
Movement in painting, literature, music and film that spanned the late 19th and early 20th century. The Nazis vilified Expressionist works as “degenerate art”.
Farahani, Golshifteh
Born in 1983 in Tehran/Iran, actress, left Iran because of repression and harassment and has lived in France since 2009.
Farnsworth, Edith
After studying the violin, Edith Farnsworth (1903-1978) switched to medicine in the 1940s and became a Professor of Nephrology.
Faulkner, William
1897-1962, US author, 1950 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Fauvism
Art movement among the French avant-garde of the early 20th century
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
A play written by Bertolt Brecht from 1943 that is made up of a montage of newspaper announcements and eyewitness reports from Nazi Germany. Its aim was to give the public outside of Germany an idea of what was happening there under the Nazi dictatorship.
