Die Migranten im Urwald

In 2021, migrants from the Middle East and Africa began traversing the Białowieża Forest, Europe’s last great lowland primeval forest, hoping for a new life. They were encouraged by Belarus’s President, who warned European leaders, “We stopped drugs and migrants. Now you will have to eat them and catch them yourselves.” Elizabeth Flock reports on how, five years later, the resulting migrant crisis has reshaped Poland—and the continent’s politics: [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/02/the-migrants-in-the-ancient-forest](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/02/the-migrants-in-the-ancient-forest)