1. Stolpersteine, stumbling
stones, Czech Republic –
mark the site where the four
members of the Gutmann
family lived before they were
murdered in the Holocaust.
4. 9 years later the
saplings have
grown into large
trees whose
trunks have
become part of
the boulders.
5. Shoes on the Danube Bank Memorial – sixty pairs of shoes
mark the site in Budapest where fascist Arrow Cross
militiamen shot Jews and threw their bodies into the river in
1944 and 1945.
6. UK Black Lives matter protestors
tip statue of slave trader Edward
Colston into Bristol Harbour
14. The Colebrook Reconciliation
Park in South Australia stands
where the Colebrook Children’s
Home once stood. Many
Aboriginal children were placed
in this institution after being
removed under government
policies.
15. Aboriginal Memorial, National Gallery of Australia, 1988 – 200 hollow log coffins from Central Arnhem land
commemorating all the indigenous people who have lost their lives defending their land.
16. Witnessing to Silence, Fiona Foley, outside
Brisbane Magistrate’s Court - a memorial to
Aboriginal people massacred in Queensland
during colonial settlement and expansion.
18. Jumping Castle War
Memorial, Brook Andrew,
2010 - as a full-size
inflatable ‘bouncy’ castle it
offers fun and laughs and
an immersive experience,
but as a self-titled war
memorial it suggests
solemnity and reflection.
What would it mean to
jump on this heritage, this
site of commemoration?
23. Critical Historical Mending
• Mending together stories that challenge each other in a way that
does not obscure or patch over their conflict.
• Ask students to tell the history of the systems, affirm the entirety of
the struggle(s) and take their own stand.