It was when Patricio's daughter converted and married Michael Skråmo that it all began. They traveled to IS in Syria together and had a total of seven children.

- She sent pictures and small films to the children but we couldn't talk freely. When I criticized their choice or wrote that they would come home, then Michael Skråmo came into the discussion and said that she would not have contact with me if I kept talking like that.

The fear of losing contact caused Patricio to comply with IS terrorist conditions Skråmo.

- I didn't dare say what I wanted most, that it was wrong, that they would come home. It was unreal, my daughter in a war in Syria, with a terrorist group, Patricio Galvez says.

"Then we all cried"

When the daughter and then Michael Skråmo died, the seven children remained, orphans. They ended up with the Kurds in northeastern Syria. Patricio contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to get help to bring their grandchildren home, but was told that they could not assist. Eventually, he traveled to Syria himself, on his own initiative, to try to meet the children and bring them home to Sweden.

The children first ended up in hospitals, severely malnourished and ill. They were then moved to a refugee camp. Patricio remembers the first meeting with the smallest boy, who was then just over a year old:

- It was awful to see him lying there, alone, lean and with I do not know how many illnesses. I lifted him up and held him in my arms. He rubbed and didn't want to wake up. But when I started to speak Swedish with him, he opened his eyes and began to smile. Then we all cried. Today he is healthy with round cheeks, he walks and he has begun to say his first words. A wonderful boy.

Doesn't seem to think about life in Syria

The seven children are currently placed in different families in Sweden.

In SVT Nyheter's reportage Patricio Galvez talks more about her relationship with the children - about how play, swimming and music take up a lot of space in their lives.

- Somewhere I think they want to forget what has been. I will take that conversation with them later.