postcard town of Nickelsdorf. Among them are women and children, many of whom have been travelling for days, weeks, even months. Tey fled their war- torn homelands, trekking across Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans.


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By Kate Bond in Nickelsdorf


hey stride, sometimes even stumble, over the Austrian border and into the picture


Now, at last, another 400 refugee journeys are almost at an end.


Te newcomers receive a warm welcome in Nickelsdorf. At the border, they collect water and snacks from local volunteers, and then, gathering in a parking lot to wait for trains to Vienna, they are offered clothes, food and first aid by the Red


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Cross. Children and babies play in the sun. A graze marks the cheek of three- year-old Noor from Syria. “She fell over,” explains her older sister, as she gently removes her muddied shoes.


Nahid, a 16-year-old student from Damascus, flashes me a pearly white smile. His mother is searching through


Women and children arrive exhausted into Austrian town to warm welcome


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