It all started with the fight of Nadia Murad, former sex slave of the organization of the Islamic State (IS) and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2018. She convinces Emmanuel Macron to welcome Yazidi women, all widows, to France as well as their children, in order to offer them a future where they don't live at home.

Thanks to a special program set up by the Élysée Palace, these survivors of terrorism are installed during 2019 by successive small groups in the four corners of France.

>> To see, our interview with Nadia Murad: "We were not alive"

Our reporters went to the Grand Est to meet some of these families. For eight months, they followed the first steps of Soma, Gulan and Mina in their new life of exiles.

Originally from Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, these women survived the clutches of IS and lost their husbands. Very often, their fathers or brothers also perished in dramatic conditions, while some of their relatives are still sex slaves of the Islamists in Iraq or Syria. They sometimes have no news of them. 

>> See our return ticket: "Iraq: after the Sinjar massacres, the trauma of the Yazidis"

Like the other Yazidi survivors, Soma, Gulan and Mina are illiterate and come from rural families. Settled in the East of France, they are supported by a team from the Habitat et Humanisme association in their administrative procedures and in their questions regarding this new culture they are discovering.

For security reasons, we were unable to film the faces of these women and their children. We have also changed their first names.

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