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The Documentary Podcast

A New Life 3 - Germany

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Having arrived in Germany, the Dhnie family's dramatic journey to their new home may be over, but the difficulties of adjusting to a new life are just beginning.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a BBC podcast. You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use at BBCworldservice.com slash

0:07.7

podcasts. Having fled Syria that the knee family spent a month trying to get to Greece but when when they did, their relief was short-lived.

0:25.0

Okay, because he's now banging it against the shield.

0:27.0

People are forcing through anyway.

0:29.0

They're forcing their way through.

0:32.0

They're just charging.

0:34.0

They were soon caught up in a riot at the Macedonian border

0:38.0

and had to spend several nights sleeping rough, in cold fields and on the streets. The lack of sleep took its toll on 16 year old

0:45.9

Abbien. To who's today, start hallucinating, I'm losing it literally I'm losing it for his mother maged and younger brother

0:58.2

Yaman it was the lack of food that wore them down

1:01.1

I'm pretty angry food that wore them down. I want to cook everything.

1:06.0

For their father, Abdur-A-Ove, it was the prospect of being caught and registered in Hungary that filled him with fear as

1:14.9

22 year old Alma explained.

1:17.0

I'm so afraid from Hungary, you know I heard a lot of things about this country. It's very difficult to cross the borders.

1:24.0

It's very difficult they took the passports. I don't know. My father afraid about this.

1:30.0

He was right to be. As the family walked across the border in the rain, they were arrested by

1:36.4

the Hungarian police.

1:39.6

You're listening to the

1:45.0

third part of a new life in Europe. I'm Manveen Rana, and I followed the Nee family for a few months

1:48.0

as they made their remarkable journey.

1:52.0

I'm outside the refugee camp at Ruska, which was the first little village in Hungary when you come over the border from Serbia.

2:00.0

I received messages from the family this morning with their location.

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