Here I feel like a newborn baby. I'm going to live a new life, but just now I feel as if 1 am between two societies, between two lives
Sara is 30 and one of
55.000 people who left the Soviet Bloc last year to seek freedom in the West. For most, their country of first asylum is Austria, and their first taste of the new life a state-run refugee camp at Traiskirchen, near Vienna. As they wait for the offer of a permanent home, sometimes crowded 20 to a room, doubts and disappointments creep in. David Henshaw reports from Austria on the growing tide of East European refugees - and the conditions that drive many to risk everything to get across the border. A File on 4 report
Producer MAX EASTERMAN BBC Manchester long wave only