Government Policy, Assimilation
Anderson, Edward Warrigal, Argentinian Orphans of the Dirty War, Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children, Burnum, Burnum, Canadian Native Children, Clare, Monica, Duleep Singh (under India - Princely States: 5), German Democratic Republic, Jagamarra, Malcolm, Kinder der Landstraße, Lee, George Patrick, Macarthur, Wally, Mills, Billy, Morcom, Luke Sidney, Moriarty, John, Mortara, Edgardo, Native American and Alaskan Native Children, Nazi Germany, Perkins, Charles, Roach, Archie, Schreiber, Lorna, Spain, 1936-75, Ward, Glenyse,
Anderson, Edward Warrigal
Anderson was born in Victoria, Australia and named after a dingo that witnessed his birth. When he was 10 years old he ran away from Moonee Ponds to escape government agents in the area to ... [more]
Argentinian Orphans of the Dirty War
Between 1976 and 1985 the military dictators of Argentina operated a policy of kidnapping, torturing, murdering and "disappearing" their political opponents. Children of their vic... [more]
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
For several decades from the 1920s to the 1960s, the Australian government operated a deliberate policy of cultural genocide, taking young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children fro... [more]
Burnum, Burnum
Burnum was born Harry Penrith (he took an Aboriginal name after his great grandfather in 1976) into a nomadic Aboriginal family at Wallaga Lake, New South Wales. When his mother died soon a... [more]
Canadian Native Children
Canadian Native Children were, as were Native American and Alaskan Native Children , and Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children , routinely rounded up and taken away fr... [more]
Clare, Monica
Clare was born in Dareel, Queensland, to an English mother and an Aboriginal shearer, Beatrice Scott and Ron McGowan. Her mother died in childbirth when she was seven years old and she and ... [more]
Duleep Singh (under India - Princely States: 5)
Until the 19th century what is now India (like Europe) was a patchwork of over 650 princely states, like kingdoms, ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely... [more]
German Democratic Republic
During these decades, under the direction of Margot Honecker, wife of Communist Party and government head Erich Honecker and minister of education, the authorities in the GDR (the former Ea... [more]
Jagamarra, Malcolm
Jagamarra was born in the Australian Outback in 1955, the son of a Warlpiri woman and an Irish Bushman. His family lived a traditional life, and whenever they neared a white homestead he wo... [more]
Kinder der Landstraße
From 1926 to 1973 the Swiss child welfare foundation Pro Juventute (founded in 1912 and still functioning) promoted and carried out, with the active co-operation of the federal, cantonal, a... [more]
