Assignment Rescue - The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee

Documentary film about Varian Fry, an American Righteous Among the Nations. Fry was a young journalist when he volunteered in 1940 to travel to France for the Emergency Rescue Committee, an organization that was established in the United States after the Nazi occupation of France for the purpose of rescuing intellectuals and political refugees who were being persecuted by the Nazis in Vichy France. In time he succeeded in rescuing from the Nazis more than 2000 artists, authors and intellectuals. Includes archival films and testimonies. Narration by the American actress Meryl Streep.