The IRC asked a mother, a child, a teenager, a pharmacist, an artist, and a family of 31 to share the few small items they were able to grab before fleeing from their war-torn country to Europe.
This year, nearly 100,000 men, women and children from war-torn countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia have fled their homes and traveled by rubber dinghies across the Aegean Sea to Lesbos, Greece.