Mawa was torn away from his family by Sudan’s civil war. After a decade apart, he was finally able reunite with his children with the help of the International Rescue Committee in Baltimore. 

Every Saturday, on his day off, Suamhirs Piraino-Guzman who works with the International Rescue Committee as an advocate for survivors of human-trafficking, volunteers to work with a group of teenage boys separated from their families at the United States border.

Netflix’s Transatlantic tells the story of how Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee helped thousands of refugees flee France during World War II. Read how the organization became the International Rescue Committee and how we’ve continued to support people facing conflict and crisis for the past 90 years.  Through the years 1933 Varian Fry at his office in Marseilles in the spring of 1941.