Refugee lives
My name is Mohammed and comes from the city of Mosul from Iraq. Life in Iraq was good. There were difficulties, but we lived as usual. I went to school there and I studied in college. But then ISIS came into town and I had to flee.
Continue reading “”My goal was Sweden””
Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, Sweden, A Million Stories
My name is Muhannad and comes from the city of Diyala in Iraq where I lived a regular life. After the United States War in 2003, many things changed in the country and I felt I could not live there. There was no security. In Iraq, I worked with my dad in a fabric store.
Continue reading ““There was no security””
Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: refugees, asylum, Sweden, A Million Stories
I came to Germany from Iraq in 2012 – today I am 20 years old. I am currently doing an internship in health care at the German Youth Migration Service (JID). I work there as a guide but also as a translator and I can get a vocational diploma. Continue reading “Only now am I able to understand what homesickness means”
Dublin Core: Language: de Subject: refugee, asylum, Iraq, Germany, a million stories
My name is x. I am 35, got married at the age of 17 and have five children. My eldest son is 18. I come from Iraq, from Zaho, near Dohuk. I wish the war would end. Continue reading “Our feet were damaged”
Dublin Core: Language: de Subject: refugees, asylum, Iraq, Germany, a million stories
My name is -. I’m from Dohuk, a Kurdish city in Iraq. I’m 33 years old. Dohuk is very beautiful. Three religious orientations live together: Christians, Muslims and Jesides. Continue reading “I was a policeman”
Dublin Core: Language: de Subject: refugees, asylum, Iraq, Germany, a million stories
I would like to do an apprenticeship in Germany. In Iraq I was a teacher for children aged 5 to 12 years. I am a teacher of Kurdish and geography. Continue reading “I would like to do an apprenticeship”
Dublin Core: Language: de Subject: refugees, asylum, Iraq, Germany, a million stories
I went to school in Iraq. Until 12th grade. After that I came to Germany. It was terrible on the way. We’ve seen a lot of bad people. Sometimes we had to sleep in the woods. Continue reading “Iraq used to be nice”
Dublin Core: Language: de Subject: refugees, asylum, Iraq, Germany, a million stories
The storyteller is a 41-year-old man from Iraq. He tells about his life in Iraq as a Jeside and about his flight to Germany. We experience about his hopes and wishes for his new life in Germany. Continue reading “I want to learn German”
Dublin Core: Language: de Subject: refugees, asylum, Iraq, Germany, a million stories
Abwbaker Sobhani, 26 year old man, fled from Kurdistan, Iran to Denmark.
My parents are originally from Iran, but I was born in Iraq.
In 1981 when the war between Iran and Iraq started, it was the war between Saddam and Khomeini, the first Islamic leader of Iran. Continue reading “Abwbaker was a courier in Iran and Iraq”
Dublin Core: Language: en Subject: refugee, iran, iraq, kurdistan, Denmark, a million stories, asylum,