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A BOOK honouring more than 250 service personnel from the Henley area who lost their lives during the Second World War has been published and will be distributed to schools and libraries in the area.
Amateur historian Mike Willoughby and his wife Lesley, from Woodcote, spent five years writing
Bringing Them Home Too, which they researched by reading old censuses and reports in back issues of the
Henley Standard.
The book is a sequel to Mr Willoughby’s 2014 work
Bringing Them Home, which commemorated 298 local men who lost their lives in the First World War.
Posted by Culture Is Life |
Tuesday 6 October 2020, 05:45 PM (AEDT) Archie Roach AM, music legend and Stolen Generations survivor, is one of Australia’s most powerful songwriters and storytellers. His deeply personal song stories and more recently his books, Tell Me Why and Took the Children Away, shed light on the devastating government policies that still impact thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families. The Archie Roach Stolen Generations resources were created during COVID-19 by Culture Is Life, in collaboration with the Archie Roach Foundation, to honour the 30th anniversary of Took the Children Away from Uncle Archie’s multi-award-winning 1990 debut album Charcoal Lane.
The Healing Foundation
February 13 each year marks the anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations, who suffered trauma because of past government policies of forced child removal.
Many of these removals occurred as the result of laws and policies aimed at assimilating the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population into the predominately white community.
Stolen Generations survivors are some of Australia’s most vulnerable people and many have kept their stories and experiences secret for many years, even decades.
One such story comes from Stolen Generations survivor Aunty Julie Black, a 64-year-old Barkindji woman, who was taken from her mother shortly after birth.
“Perhaps
it is impossible to understand anything unless it happened
to you yourself.” - Martha
Gellhorn.
Gellhorn was not only a superb war
correspondent (and Ernest Hemingway s lover), but also a
writer who never lost her vigilant sense of self-awareness,
born as it was from a profound inner loneliness, a radical
political uncertainty, and her consequent habit of merciless
self-analysis. It was a quality that enabled her, even in
moments of almost unbearably intimate confrontation with the
suffering of others, to become the perfect stranger in
another s territory, the emissary from a zone of human
calamity to a land where people are both comfortable and