“I wish I could have done more for her. Her life has been nothing but struggle.”

“My husband and I sold everything we had to afford the journey.”

“There is no security in Baghdad. We lived in constant fear.”

“ISIS looks for any reason to punish you.”

“The extent to which refugee children have been conditioned by their environment is heartbreaking.”

“A friend called me at work and told me that a sniper had shot my youngest brother.”

“I’m working as an interpreter. I know what these people are going through. “

“I worked as a waiter in Saudi Arabia for seven years to save money so that I could build a house in Syria.”

“I saw the army burn my neighbor’s house. They set it on fire and took photographs while it burned.”

“Every month we had to go to Baghdad to get my son’s eyes treated.”

“Before leaving for Europe, I went back to Syria to see my family once more.”

“I inherited this orphanage from my father. I was in my twenties at the time. I had other dreams for my life, but the responsibility fell on me.”

“There was a huge puzzle after the genocide. How do you pursue justice when the crime is so great?”

“My father was well respected in the community. He was a university lecturer and a choir member.”

“I was only ten years old at the time so I don’t remember much.”

“The genocide was an opportunity to get rich. Murdering people was the quickest way to accumulate wealth.”

“My father was a talented engineer. He could fix any type of truck, and he used his income to help the poor.”

“When we heard the president had been killed, I ran into the street with my friends.”

“My husband and I were shopkeepers at the time of the genocide.”

“When I was twelve years old, they undressed a Tutsi girl in front of my entire school.”