Susan Sarandon spent her Christmas holiday on the Greek island of Lesbos and helped international organizations which deal with Syrian refugee crisis.

She said that refugee crisis recalls the travails of Joseph and Mary on their way to the Inn in Bethlehem.

The Oscar-winning actress described the moment she met a 16-year-old girl who had given birth shortly before arriving on the island in a column for the Huffington Post and RYOT.

“I smile and approach her, but without a translator, our conversation is basic-friendly,” Sarandon wrote. “She takes the bundle next to her and opens it to me. Inside is a perfect, rosy, newborn.”, as Breitbart reports.

“She is beaming, so proud. How did this young girl, just having given birth, manage that trip at sea? How did she do all that walking? Where did she give birth?”

“Wasn’t Mary just a kid too when she and Joseph took to the road? So far, there is no manger for this Syrian baby, no room at the inn.” the actress wrote.

Sarandon also described her trip to the Greek island to the Guardian newspaper saying that she packed granola bars, emergency blankets, socks, and hand warmers to distribute to the refugees and reportedly assisted at least four different international organizations working on the island.

“I wanted to learn from the refugees, take their stories and somehow put them on the Internet,” Sarandon told the Guardian. “My main goal was to humanize the issue and have them be real people, not politicize it.”

Sarandon also criticized the political discourse about the refugee crisis in the United States: “It seemed like people who had the loudest voices were the most xenophobic and un-American,” she said.