As part of Refugee Week, we have collected the most moving photos of the European Refugee Crisis.
17 Photos
1. When Macedonia closed its border to migrants last month after declaring a state of emergency, thousands spent a night in no-man’s-land. The following morning they tried to push through police lines, leading officers to fire stun grenades into the crowd. A photographer captured this young father’s despair.
Photo: Darko Vojinovic/Getty Images
2. Refugees from Syria pray after arriving on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos aboard an inflatable dinghy across the Aegean Sea from Turkey.
Photo: AFP/Angelos Tzortzinis
3. Syrian refugees sleep on the floor of a train taking them from Macedonia to the Serbian border.
Photo: CNN
4. Twins from Syria arrive in Greece with their parents after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey.
Photo: Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP/Getty Images
5. Locals survey a huge pile of deflated dinghies, tubes and life vests left by arriving refugees and migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Photo: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
6. Medics try to revive a baby who was on a boat that sunk near Lesbos in late October.
Photo: AFP/Aris Messinis
7. Dinghies filled with migrants approach the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea in early October.
Photo: AFP/Aris Messinis
8. A man falls to his knees as he gets to Lesbos in late October. More than 300,000 refugees have passed through the Greek island this year.
Photo: AFP/Aris Messinis
9. A Syrian refugee protects his wife and young child on the train tracks after Hungarian police stopped a train with asylum seekers in the Hungarian town of Bicske, preventing them from continuing their journey to Western Europe.
Photo: Laszlo Balogh/Reuters
10. Afghan migrants arrive on a beach on the Greek island of Kos, after crossing the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece.
Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images
11. A Syrian father wraps his wet daughter in a towel after their arrival on an overcrowded dinghy to the coast of the southeastern Greek island of Kos.
Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images
12. Young refugees gather around a projector set up by considerate locals to watch Tom and Jerry cartoons in the subterranean level of the Keleti train station. The cartoons are a welcome distraction from an otherwise chaotic scene. Thousands are stranded in the station as the authorities closed travel for refugees.
Photo: David Maurice Smith/Oculi
13. A family flees after Hungarian police responded with force against Refugees protesting in Horgoš on the Serbian/Hungarian border in after the refugees pushed through the border fence into Hungary.
Photo: David Maurice Smith/Oculi
14. A man kisses his wife with relief as they arrive with their children after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey.
Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images
15. A mother hugs her son after arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos from Turkey.
Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images
16. Injured people await medical attention in Lesbos, Greece after arriving from Turkey
Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images
17. An Afghan mother cries with relief while clasping her child.
