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The former Moria camp on the island of Lesbos was the largest refugee camp in Europe, with up to 20,000 people living there at times.
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Outside the military area, the so-called "Jungle" has formed in the surrounding olive fields.
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Former nurse Yasmin A fled to the island of Lesvos in 2018 with her three sisters and mother from Mogadishu, Somalia.
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Camp's residents try to get outside of Moria, while greek police use tear gas on a massive scale inside the camp during a protest.
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Nazif from Kunduz with his family in the morning after a heavy rainy night.
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40% of Morias 13.000 residents were minors, with seven out of ten under the age of twelve.
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Stratos and Michaelis from the village of Mantamados in front of a road block against a construction of a new camp site.
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After the Greek government announced that it would set up closed camps and annex land from neighboring farmers violent protests by the Greek population happened.
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Residents of Lesbos during a road blockade. After several days of escalation the greek government finally drops the plans again.
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Priest Papa Stratos in Mantamados."We have the same goal as the migrants. We want them to disappear from our island."
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The Community Center of the NGO "One Happy Family" is destroyed in a fire. In the associated "School of Peace" hundreds of children went to school every day. The police assume that the fire was caused by arson.
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S. from Baghlan arrived in December 2018 on Lesvos with a group of other unaccompanied minors.
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Afghan believers at prayer in a self-built mosque in Moria. In addition to numerous mosques, there were also twelve churches belonging to African communities.
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Ali, Valy and Nabi from Baglan,Afghanistan during the night. For many of the young refugees, the community inside the tents is their last support.
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In need of firewood, people cut down the trees of the surrounding olive fields. Some of them are centuries old.
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People from Afghanistan shortly after their arrival on the coast of northern Lesvos near the small fishing village of Skala Sykaminea.
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It is not uncommon for people arriving on the coast to be surrounded by television cameras immediately after arrival and to be obstructed during their first aid.
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Due to the political situation, it is often forgotten that Lesvos is best known for its olive tree heritage. The island has by far the largest number of olive trees per capita in the world.
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Porkopis stands among his olive trees on the island of Lesvos. In total he owns almost 9000 trees. He exports his oil to all over Europe.
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After violent protests on the island, people are accommodated in the naval ship "Rhodes L177". In the belly of the ship at times sleep up to 500 people.
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Basbegum, 80, has spent almost her entire life in Kunduz, Afghanistan. She is one of the oldest residents of Moria.
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Zaif from Baghlan washing in the sea in the morning. Thousands of refugees live for days on the streets at the shore line after the huge
fire destroyed Moria.
fire destroyed Moria.
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The cemetery of the „nameless“. Since 2015 people are buried here who have been drowned in the sea during the crossing from Turkey.
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Charred remains of the burned-out camp for asylum seekers in Moria.
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Konstantions Theofilopoulos, head of the fire brigade in the North Aegean. Most recently, there have been numerous fires in Moria every week, sometimes several in one day.
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After the major fire in Moria, thousands of refugees live on a street along the east coast of Lesvos.
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Fardi from Afghanistan at the site in the burned camp where his tent once stood.
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After staying on the streets for days, O. and his family from Kundus are waiting to enter the new camp close to Kara Tepe.
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The new camp for asylum seekers "Karatepe" close to the small village of Panagouda.
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Nature is getting back to the former olive fields of Camp Moria.
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Ohab from Kunduz in Afghanistan fishes fish in the sea in the early morning.