Refugee Stories

Orphaned young and raised Irish-American, Josephine Dare learns early how to endure loss. Drawn to medicine for its order and purpose, she enters the U.S. Army as a surgeon just as the world descends into war. On December 7, 1941, Josephine is stationed at Pearl Harbor when the attack begins. Shot amid the chaos, she refuses evacuation and continues operating, saving lives long after her strength should have failed. By nightfall, her actions have already become legend. She survives the Pacific Theater, carrying the weight of relentless casualties and impossible decisions, before being transferred to England, where she is embedded with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment-Easy Company. There, war becomes intimate and unrelenting, measured in mud, blood, and exhausted men who trust her with their lives. Among paratroopers hardened by combat, Josephine becomes a constant presence-a healer who never looks away, even as the cost of survival carves itself into her bones. Each operation leaves its mark. Each loss follows her into the dark. As the fighting intensifies, Josephine must confront the truth no training can prepare her for: courage does not make one invincible. How much can a single person endure before the weight of war finally breaks them? Now returned from the Pacific and sent to England, Elsa is assigned as regimental surgeon to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, men preparing for an invasion few expect to survive. Among paratroopers and officers hardened by loss, she becomes their constant-patching bodies, steadying nerves, and carrying the weight of every life placed in her hands. But endurance has its limits. As D-Day approaches, Elsa begins to confront the cost of survival, the quiet damage left by heroism, and the terrifying truth that even the strongest can break.

The war ended without victors. Only ruins remained. Andreana, once an officer shaped by duty and now hunted as a fugitive, escapes into the ruins of a country that discarded her. Erich, the medic who refused to stop saving lives even after the war swallowed everything, chooses to follow her into the ash. As the borders close and winter deepens, their only chance is to flee to Cretea, a country that may or may not accept what is left of them. But the journey forces them to confront more than hunger and ruins. It forces them to confront themselves, their past, their guilt, and the bond forming between two people who were never meant to survive this long.

My kingdom has fallen. I am the only royal family member that escaped, but what is a sixteen year old girl supposed to do? Me and my two servants escaped across the eastern border, but a couple of hectic days and run ins with guards later, I found myself here. Working as a servant in the palace of a neighboring county, protecting my secret of my princess status with my life. And the prince himself? He is the biggest jerk I have ever met. But somehow, I think I'm growing to tolerate him.

Jessie Bondririas is a young girl with everything she has ever dreamt. Until one day when war breaks out. She's captured by enemy forces. She's enslaved and is forced to serve their army or else she would be killed. They storm her hometown's refugee homes and must watch her parents be killed. She had to suppress her pain and grief. She gets depressed and thinks that there's no remaining hope, until she meets a couple of teens her age from the other side of the fence. They're citizens of the enemy's country but are Christian and super nice. They become her friends and show her the gospel. She rejects it at first, but is eventually led to believe. They give her a small Bible and she cherishes it. She reads it every second she can, but when she tries to share the gospel with another inmate, he throws it to the ground and the guards see it and seize it. So she begs her friends to give her another one but with the new fencing it would not fit. So they wrote verses in pieces of paper each day. She memorized everything that she could because she knew that if they found it they would take it. And also Canva created the cover as well as additional information added by me and the scroll from CleanPNG.com. And in this book the character struggles with manipulating others and cursing, but anything curses word will be (definitely i do not curse in real life or my writings) covered like this: @%*# or something similar.

They tried to break me. Locked me up. Branded me a traitor, a rebel, a troublemaker. But they forgot: Truth doesn't live in laws - it lives in the heart. This is the voice of someone they tried to silence - but failed. Who chose exile over betraying himself. Who lost everything, except his voice. And now, that voice speaks. "I'm not a hero. I'm not a martyr. Just someone who refused to stay silent." Slam poetry based on a true story - about political persecution, survival, inner freedom, and how sometimes, a single word can save a life.

What if we found intelligent life in the universe? What would happen if they came to us not as enemies, but as refugees? Cipher is a stranger in a strange land. From a different world. He has spent most of his young life preparing to represent his people among the humans, proving that Aeolians can live among humans. He and several others are enrolled in schools scattered across the world. But integration is never easy, and as one of the first Cipher must bear the brunt of it. Will he succeed in his mission or is it too much to ask of someone so young? ***If you're looking for the Cipher from my short story "Not Alone" this is the fuller story*** ***Warnings*** I don't really know how to do this... There is bullying (verbal and physical), some violence, very mild and few 'bad words' (let me know if you see more I need to add) ***This is a first draft of my original story I hope to publish one day so constructive criticism and feedback is much appreciated**

The village Mithle burned in a night raid and Avi Itoma survived. But he wished he hadn't. His sister was stolen, his family went missing, and Avi was taken somewhere he had never been before: a place that housed far too many nightmares for far too many people. Introduced as a refugee camp, Avi's new home was not as welcoming as it pretended to be, and Avi was left with hope as his last lifeline as he plummeted straight into its deepest secret. A desert wasteland and a desperate refugee and only one place to go. In a terrifying new place, Avi is met with one conclusion: escape or die trying. +++ ~ 1st place in Action, The Golden Awards 2018 ~ 1st place in Fantasy, The Gizmo Awards 2019 ~ 1st place in Unknown Story for November 2018, The Blue Rose Awards ~ 2nd place in Fantasy for November 2018, The Blue Rose Awards ~ 2nd place in Overall Favorite for November 2018, The Blue Rose Awards ~ 4th place (runner up) in Action, The Belle Amé Awards 2020 (Currently a lightly edited first draft. This is my oldest writing on Wattpad, so read at your own discretion.) Started August 28, 2017, finished October 15, 2018. Cover by @elzarion

You are taken from your homeland, ancient Egypt. During the ten plagues. Someone has saved you from the last plague that takes the life of every first born. Traveling to another dimension he finds a quiet place to set you. Found by master oogway he takes you to live with your new found brother, and adoptive father.

After Azadija's parents are violently taken away by the police, she struggles to support her siblings. Rajimyna, a girl in the neighboring country's home is destroyed by a bomb. Then Azadija discovers a trunk while sorting through some stuff she can sell to keep her family alive. The trunk contains a logbook with names and dates of refugees. Rajimyna's family starts to make the dangerous journey to Sinashi as refugees, and her father is left behind. Azadija finds a secret door in the back of the storeroom in their courtyard that leads to a huge collection of courtyards and houses. These houses are occupied by refugees. Azadija's parents have been helping them cross the border and hiding them here. Azadija is informed of another group of refugees that are arriving the next day. Can Azadija manage to sneak Rajimyna and the refugees safely over the border?

THEE BOOK IS CREATED IN ORDER TO PROTECT THEE PROGRESS OF HUMAN KIND: ALL ALIKE.

This blog states the stories of some of our inspiring artisan partners at Mahama Refugee Camp. For more information visit:https://indegoafrica.org/blogs/blog/international-women-s-day-josephine-s-story.

What if you became friends with someone you weren't supposed to? What if the country you lived in sworn you in as enemies? What if despite it all you ignored the stereotypes? Knowing that you would always remain friends even after you take your last breathe. Clint Bramson is a typical English boy, Franz Fritz a German refugee. Here is their story.

A poem about the pain of refugees and the reality of their life. Do you really know what stands behind those warn out clothes and bruised face?

Death, destruction is knocking on Yasmin's door. A day with out war is what she hopes for! But as she grows up does it all change does she get that journey she's been hoping for

Young Lena Bentheim is forced to flee Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1935, leaving her family and boyfriend behind. After learning English, she eventually finds a new life as a secretary in the Physics Department of the University of Chicago. She meets and marries another German refugee scientist and has a child. Then tragedy strikes, and Lena is forced to spy on the nuclear fission experiments at the U of Chicago. A novella set in the early years of the Manhattan Project, The Incidental Spy is another fascinating historical thriller by Libby Fischer Hellmann, also the author of the highly acclaimed stand-alone thrillers Set the Night on Fire, A Bitter Veil, and Havana Lost.

Evacuate. Crash. Unknown planet. Survive. Stay sane. *Short Story*

Five, seven, then five Syllables make a haiku Often with three lines. Why not read this book? In English, Arabic, French, Three nice languages :)

Aine is on her way to a nursing home placement when her granddaughter gives her a toy goblin, but SETI has other ideas. "I don't want to go." I sat beside my daughter, who had the most miserable expression I'd seen on her in 19 years of life. She held a backpack with woefully little room for 65 years of my collection. Outside the window of the bus, I watched old mansions of Inman Park with their dead trees and bushes. I guess that's me, now. "Granny, I don't want you to go, either." Luna, my 4 year-old granddaughter, hugged me with her smelly goblin toy my daughter's sorry ex gave her for her birthday last week.

Every member of the family was to be named after their birthplace. And they were born in cities all over Asia, Europe, and the United States. This is their family history.