They've fled a dangerous past for an uncertain future, but these refugees have come from ordinary day-to-day lives as much as anyone in the UK.
Pictures showing the worlds they left behind offer a heartbreaking view of the existence which has been wrenched apart by civil war, unrest and torment in their home countries.
Mohammad from Kabul in Afghanistan shows a photograph of himself sitting in his office.
The 26-year-old worked at a a telecommunications company in his own country, but he is now poised uncertainly between past and future at the reception centre for refugees in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
His wartorn home has resulted in over 90,000 direct war-related deaths, which includes insurgents, civilians and government forces, with more than 100,000 injured.
Refugees are hardly able to take any belongings with them on their long journey.
Photographs and pictures on smart and mobile phones are mostly the only personal effects can carry with them that serve as reminders of their former lives.
Suad is from Homs in Syria which has been gripped by a bloody civil war for four years. Presenting a photograph of her brother Ahmad near their family home, she shows that the scenic landscape is a long way from the country now torn apart by rebels' armed struggle against President Bashar al-Assad's government and the incoming of ISIS.
Another Syrian, Kelsum from Qamishli presents a photograph of the birthday party of her little daughter Hilbi.
Qamishli is a city in northeastern Syria on the border with Turkey. Today, the Syrian government is still in control of the airport, border crossing, and several government buildings and Arab neighborhoods, but most of the city is in the hands of Kurdish and Assyrian militias.
Hamid is another man from Kabul who has left Afghanistan to seek safety and a new life. His old mobile phone displays a photograph from happier times of his relatives.
Hamza from Damascus in Syria presents a photograph of a festive event with hospital staff. The capital of the country, Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world but is marked by bullets and explosions due to its strategic importance in the civil war.
