Somar - Memories of a Journey
Somar was living in Amman, Jordan, since 2012, when his younger sisters from Damascus called him: “We are ready to go, do you come with us?” The destination was implicit there: Germany.
They met in Istanbul on 3rd September and the journey started. Through the protest in Edirne, at
Turkish-Greek land border, after negotiations with the smuggler in the South of Turkey, and
different separations of the brothers during the journey, they met again in Athens and from there
they continued the road to the Balkans. Somar’s and his sisters’ path is the story of one of the
dangerous journeys which one million refugees made towards Europe in 2015. They now live in
Mosbach, a small town north of Stuttgart, after one month and a half travel and more than four
thousands kilometers. German government provided them an apartment in a structure where other
forty-.seven refugees from Iraq, Syria and Kurdistan live. They knew they would have arrived in
Germany after this adventure: they did not know how is starting a new life after risking it.
