The Archive Speaks
Episodes
Ep 19 | Marie’s Story Part 3 – DRC: “I Carry Everything Alone”
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to carry a household on your own—every day, without pause?In this third chapter of Marie’s oral history, we move into the struct...
Ep 18 | Marie’s Story Part 2 – DRC: A City Under Watch
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Goma is a city where life continues, but not freely.In this second part of Marie’s story, we return with her to a place she knows well, yet experien...
Ep 17 | Marie’s Story Part 1 – DRC: Raised Between Moves
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to grow up in a place where conflict never fully leaves?In Part 1 of Marie’s oral history, we meet her as a daughter of eastern Co...
Ep 16 | Kolima’s Story Part 2 – Rohingya: Life in the Waiting
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does life look like when displacement stretches into years?In the final chapter of Kolima’s oral history, we hear from her as she lives now —...
Ep 15 | Kolima’s Story Part 1 – Rohingya: The First Stitch
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to learn survival before you have words for it?In the first chapter of Kolima’s oral history, we meet a Rohingya woman whose early...
Ep 14 | Lucille’s Story Part 2 – Congo: The Day the City Went Silent
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Part 2 of Lucille’s oral history, she returns to the morning everything changed in Goma. One moment, the neighborhood hummed with its usual rhyth...
Ep 13 | Lucille’s Story Part 1 – Congo: Before the Rebels Came
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does childhood look like in a place where conflict is always humming in the background?In this first chapter of Lucille’s oral history, we meet...
Ep 12 | Sakena’s Story Part 4 – Rohingya: Let Home Live in Our Hearts
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final chapter of Sakena’s story, we return to her quiet corner of Cox’s Bazar, where life moves between memory and prayer.Each morning begi...
Ep 11 | Sakena’s Story Part 3 – Rohingya: Lines That Feed Us
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this chapter of Sakena’s story, we return to Cox’s Bazar — a place where survival is measured in queues. Every morning, women like Sakena ris...
Ep 10 | Sakena’s Story Part 2 – Rohingya: River and Smoke
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When danger came to Gudusara, Sakena’s home in Northern Rakhine, it didn’t arrive all at once. It came in whispers first—then in fire, and foots...
Ep 9 | Sakena’s Story Part 1 – Rohingya: The Days of Blue Skies
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before displacement. Before the border crossings. Before the word “refugee.”There was a girl named Sakena, in a small village called Gudusara in A...
Ep 8 | Noor's Story Part 4 - Palestine: Planting Hope
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Female heads of households are often the invisible backbone of displacement. They carry a heavier weight in society. Raising children, holding familie...
Ep 7 | Noor's Story Part 3 - Palestine: What's Enough for Us
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Part 3 of Noor’s 4-part series, we follow her through the most difficult turning point of her life: leaving Gaza.After losing her husband Khaled ...
Ep 6 I Noor's Story Part 2 - Palestine: The Turning Point
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Part 2 of Noor’s story, we step into the turning point of her life in Gaza.October 7, 2023 — a date the world came to recognize in headlines. F...
Ep 5 | Noor's Story Part 1: Palestine - Threads of Home
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this first chapter of Noor’s story, we trace the threads that formed her identity long before war and loss. Her roots run through Gaza, from her ...
Ep 4 | Ataa’s Story Part 4 – Shape of a Warrior
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to become the head of a household overnight? In this final chapter of Ataa’s Story, we follow her through one of the most overlook...
Ep 3 | Ataa’s Story Part 3 – Syria: The Heart of the Home
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I’m one person—but I have to be a mother, a father, a teacher, a provider… I have to be everything."Ataa speaks from her shelter in Zaatari Cam...
Ep 2 | Ataa’s Story Part 2 – Syria: The Border Between Two Lives
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Do you know when you have two lives? Like on your left, you have this life—and on your right side, a completely different life…" Ataa describes h...
Ep 1 | Ataa’s Story Part 1 – Syria: From Books to Bullets
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this moving first part of the 4-part series of Ataa’s Story, titled From Books to Bullets, we are invited into the early chapters of one woman’...
The Archive Speaks: Why We’re Telling These Stories
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Archive Speaks: TrailerWelcome to The Archive Speaks—a podcast by The Refugee Archive, a digital oral history project focused exclusively on the...