On April 30, 1975, the army of North Vietnam rolled into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The day, celebrated in Vietnam today as Reunification Day, marked the end of a long, bloody, and divisive war — and of the IRC’s work in South Vietnam.
On April 30, 1975, the army of North Vietnam rolled into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The day, celebrated in Vietnam today as Reunification Day, marked the end of a long, bloody, and divisive war — and of the International Rescue Committee’s work in South Vietnam. During that year alone, the IRC helped more than 18,000 refugees, almost all of them Vietnamese, begin new lives in the U.S.