{"id":75934,"date":"2024-01-26T12:39:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T10:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?post_type=magazin&#038;p=75934"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:59:52","slug":"no-place-to-retreat-refugee-shelters","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/silence\/no-place-to-retreat-refugee-shelters\/","title":{"rendered":"No place to retreat: why refugee shelters lack silence"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"cover--lead-in has-spacing--none\">\r\n\r\n    \r\n    <div class=\"cover--lead-in__content typo--tiempos\">\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"entry-categories\">\n\t<a class=\"post__tag\" href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine-category\/silence\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Silence<\/a><\/div>\r\n        <h2 class=\"cover--lead-in__headline headline-size--s\">\r\n            No place to retreat: why refugee shelters lack silence        <\/h2>\r\n\r\n                    <div class=\"cover--lead-in__text\">\r\n                <p>Constant noise, no room of one\u2019s own: how life in collective shelters wears people down \u2013 as told by a refugee from Ukraine.<br \/>\n<strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/antonia-roehrer\/\">Antonia R\u00f6hrer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n            <\/div>\r\n        \r\n                    <div class=\"cover--lead-in__author\">\r\n                \r\n                    \r\n                            <figure class=\"cover--lead-in__author__image\">\r\n\r\n                                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/antonia-roehrer\/\" target=\"_blank\">\r\n                                \r\n                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\r\n                                    src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia-68x68.jpg\"\r\n                                    srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia-68x68.jpg 68w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia-52x52.jpg 52w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia-96x96.jpg 96w\"\r\n                                    width=\"68\"\r\n                                    height=\"68\"\r\n                                    alt=\"\"\r\n                                \/>\r\n\r\n                                                                    <\/a>\r\n                                \r\n                            <\/figure>\r\n\r\n                                    <\/div><!-- .cover--lead-in__author -->\r\n        \r\n    <\/div><!-- .cover--lead-in__content -->\r\n\r\n    \r\n        <figure class=\"cover--lead-in__image cover--lead-in__media cover--lead-in__media--image\">\r\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\r\n                src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/LD8B7060_Halle7-1920x1280.jpg\"\r\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/LD8B7060_Halle7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/LD8B7060_Halle7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/LD8B7060_Halle7-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/LD8B7060_Halle7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/LD8B7060_Halle7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/LD8B7060_Halle7-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/LD8B7060_Halle7-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/LD8B7060_Halle7-1050x700.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/LD8B7060_Halle7-670x447.jpg 670w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/LD8B7060_Halle7-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/LD8B7060_Halle7-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/LD8B7060_Halle7-150x100.jpg 150w\"\r\n                width=\"1920\"\r\n                height=\"1280\"\r\n                alt=\"\"\r\n                style=\"object-position: 35.33% 82%\"\r\n            \/>\r\n        <\/figure>\r\n\r\n        \r\n    \r\n<\/div><!-- .cover--lead-in -->\r\n\r\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph alignleft has-text-align-left is-style-typo--soehne has-spacing--m\"><sup>Photo: Tetyana Chernyavska<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--default\"><strong>Only a plastic partition separated Maryna Sviderska, 43,<\/strong> her son and the six strangers who shared their cubicle from the hundreds of other refugees. She arrived in Hannover on 9 July 2022 and was housed in a hall on the trade fair grounds with hundreds of other refugees of many different nationalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--m\">In May last year she fled to Germany from Melitopol, one of the first Ukrainian cities to come under Russian control after the war began. Now we are sitting together on a park bench in Bad Bevensen with Tania, Maryna\u2019s daughter, who arrived in Hannover two months earlier. She helps with the interpreting and can only confirm this: \u2018Even on the phone it was hard to understand my mother. Children were screaming and it was incredibly loud, at any time of day.\u2019 <br><br><strong>During the two days Maryna had to spend in her first emergency shelter<\/strong>, she found no peace; sleep was out of the question: \u2018When I wanted some time to myself, I went outside onto the street.\u2019 From Hannover, she and her son were taken to Bad Bevensen, a small town 100 kilometres away. There they lived with twenty other refugees from Ukraine in tents in a school gym. \u2018The situation there was better. At least I had already got to know the women I shared the tent with on the bus, so they weren\u2019t complete strangers,\u2019 she says. <br><br>You could still hear the people in the other tents, but for the first two weeks it was bearable. Then more refugee women and children arrived, and the situation got worse: \u2018From then on it was a disaster. There was no peace, no privacy, no cleanliness; the children relieved themselves between the tents and left the excrement lying there.\u2019 These conditions also led to conflicts among the refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n    \n    <div id=\"quote-block_07b8faec7b1d00cb4d9c604e2ba86561\" class=\"block-quote has-spacing--m\">\n        <figure class=\"quote\">\n            <blockquote>\n                <p>It was incredibly loud, the children were screaming and there was no way to talk at a normal volume or read a book.<\/p>\n            <\/blockquote>\n\n            <figcaption>\n\n                            <span><\/span>\n            <\/figcaption>\n            \n        <\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--default\"><strong>Asked whether she could shield her bed from other people\u2019s eyes<\/strong>, Maryna just laughs. There was no privacy for her, for three months. Yet privacy should be a given: in August 2020, the NIFN (Network for Traumatised Refugees in Lower Saxony) presented guidelines for housing refugees. They state, for example, that \u2018it (must) be possible to lock the room at all times of the day and night\u2019. If that is not possible, it is important that \u2018retreat is nevertheless possible, e.g. through room dividers\u2019. Maryna had none of this; instead, she slept with earplugs every night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--m\">Cramped conditions and a lack of privacy can also worsen the symptoms of trauma-related disorders, according to the NIFN: they limit the sense of safety and of control over one\u2019s own situation. Maryna can only confirm this: \u2018If you have no privacy and no place to think, you can\u2019t process what you\u2019ve been through, and that weighs on you even more.\u2019 At first it was good to talk about the war and cry with others in the same situation, she says, but after a certain point she would rather have done that alone, in silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n    \n    <div id=\"quote-block_2a66de7c1a363a1bd9cb96622b180085\" class=\"block-quote has-spacing--m\">\n        <figure class=\"quote\">\n            <blockquote>\n                <p>Now we laugh about it; back then it was terrible.<\/p>\n            <\/blockquote>\n\n            <figcaption>\n\n                            <span><\/span>\n            <\/figcaption>\n            \n        <\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--default\"><strong>After three months, volunteers found a flat for Maryna<\/strong>, her son and her husband, who came to Germany a month later. \u2018What I wanted most for my own flat was silence and my own bathroom,\u2019 says the Ukrainian. She did not care what the flat looked like \u2013 as long as it was away from all the noise. \u2018It was a release,\u2019 she says. \u2018At last I could sleep without earplugs again.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--default\">But for refugees from war zones, silence has another meaning too, she says: \u2018When there is silence, no bombs are falling.\u2019 One night in the camp there was a thunderstorm; everyone woke up and was frightened because they thought it was another explosion, she recounts. That was not the only situation that took her back to the war: \u2018One day we visited Tania in her former attic flat near the Herrenhausen Gardens. There was a fireworks competition there, and when the bangs started, my son began to cry. It sounded just like the gunfire in Ukraine. Now we laugh about it; back then it was terrible.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-spacing--default has-spacing--default\">\n<div class=\"devider has-spacing--none\">\n    <hr>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \n\n    <div id=\"lead-in-block_1696926fdbf02b286e1879c289943e47\" class=\"block-lead-in typo--default font-size--xl has-spacing--s width--default\">\n        <p><strong>Recommended by the editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"teaser-grid grid-layout--3col has-spacing--s width--inline\">\r\n\r\n            \r\n                <article class=\"post-teaser\">\r\n\r\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/collecting\/the-worlds-largest-playmobil-collection\/\" rel=\"permalink\">\r\n\r\n                        <div class=\"post-teaser__content\">\r\n\r\n                            <span class=\"entry-categories\">Collecting<\/span>\r\n                            <h3 class=\"post-teaser__headline\">\r\n                                The world&#8217;s largest Playmobil collection: 400,000 figures                            <\/h3>\r\n\r\n                            <div class=\"post-teaser__excerpt\">\r\n                                <p>It all began in a child&#8217;s bedroom \u2013 today Oliver Schaffer owns the world&#8217;s largest Playmobil collection, with more than 400,000 figures. 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Today Axel Reitz works in extremism prevention.<\/p>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n                        <\/div><!-- .post-teaser__content -->\r\n\r\n\r\n                        \r\n                            <figure class=\"post-teaser__image\">\r\n                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  \r\n                                    src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Janek-Stempel_AxelReitz-1317-768x512.jpg\" \r\n                                    srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Janek-Stempel_AxelReitz-1317-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Janek-Stempel_AxelReitz-1317-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Janek-Stempel_AxelReitz-1317-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Janek-Stempel_AxelReitz-1317-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, 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                        <div class=\"post-teaser__excerpt\">\r\n                                <p>Rafael Heygster questions society&#8217;s approach to war in &#8220;I Died 22 Times.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n                        <\/div><!-- .post-teaser__content -->\r\n\r\n\r\n                        \r\n                            <figure class=\"post-teaser__image\">\r\n                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  \r\n                                    src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/01Rafael_Heygster-700x467.jpg\" \r\n                                    srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/01Rafael_Heygster-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/01Rafael_Heygster-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/01Rafael_Heygster-300x200.jpg 300w, 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            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  \r\n                                    src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/copyright_Anton-Vester_-6-768x549.jpg\" \r\n                                    srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/copyright_Anton-Vester_-6-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/copyright_Anton-Vester_-6-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/copyright_Anton-Vester_-6-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/copyright_Anton-Vester_-6-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/copyright_Anton-Vester_-6-1920x1372.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/copyright_Anton-Vester_-6-1400x1000.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/copyright_Anton-Vester_-6-1050x750.jpg 1050w, 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After her skin has been degreased, nurse Marie Drebing attaches the first two electrodes around her eyes so that her eye movements can be tracked. 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