For a long time, it was not something that Omid Aghondi (38) told easily that he had to flee from Iran as a child of ten. He certainly didn’t talk about the journey that he spent most of the time in the back of a truck. But after he had told his story once, the shame was gone. Five years ago, he and writer Lysette van Geel published a children’s book about his flight. Now there is a theater performance – for young and old – added.
Omid is no longer ashamed and makes a theater performance about his flight as a 10-year-old child from Iran: ‘My story is one of thousands’
