The coming Christmas will be a very difficult one for thousands of migrants and refugees who are still trying to reach Europe.
There have been touching stories of citizens going out of their way to help new arrivals feel at home, and even carrying on with a few festive traditions.
Nuremberg's Christkindlesmarkt is a step back in time. Vendors still sell Lebkuchen here -- a type of traditional cake.
And locals drink Gluweine at one of Germany's oldest Christmas markets -- just as they would have back in the 1620s.
But something is new at one stall in the market.
Refugee children have come to sell their crafts and learn more about a culture rather different from their own.
For some, Christmas is not entirely foreign. They would decorate a tree and open presents back in their hometown.
Still, there are some who have only recently learned that Santa Claus is coming, though his real name, they say, "is Gunther".
Gunther Reichert is a 53-year-old architect, who runs a children’s workshop that’s aimed at immediate integration for minors.
"If we don't give them the information -- they socialize themselves, and after nine months or after six months when the families come here to Germany, then it's very, very difficult to integrate them because all the energy is with the family," said Reichert, founder of AsyloTech.
City officials have embraced his private initiative and say the public has, too.
"We have that very sad and very dark chapter of our history, and I think that many people here in Germany know that you have to take care of people who have to leave their country," said Norbert Schuergers from the Nuremberg municipal government.
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