The Wenbergs

Vince Wenberg:

Vince Keith Wenberg was born in 1932, 28^th of April, in Uligandi Island near Maclean.

He doesn’t exactly know, where his mother is from, but he thinks she’s from the Bundjalung tribe, while she comes from the Cabbage Tree Island. She left Uligandi Island and got married with Wenberg, and took his name, and they used to live up at Grafton.

His mother used to take them places and fishing. She was very thoughtful and took the to shows.

Heres a shot video about him:

http://stolengenerationstestimonies.com/index.php/testimonies/1000.html

Rita Wenberg:

Rita Wenberg was put into Cootamundra Girls Home in 1943, when she was only 3 years old. She grew up in the Girls home, which was owned by the government. The home held many religious people, and had different people coming up and preaching to them.

The days she spent in the home, being abused was a natural thing. She would get into trouble often, because she tore her dress and ended up having to wear a potato bag dress for a week. The worst case she’s experienced, when it comes to being abused, was being whipped with a wire.

She says, that the biggest pain about being taken away from her family, is not knowing, who you really are.  And when she finally went home and met her real family is, that they don’t feel like real family to her.

Being raised among white people gives you the thought of you being white. This leads her to having trouble interfering with aboriginals. Because she has trouble communicating with the aboriginals, while they think she talks like a whitefella. She doesn’t feel like she belongs among neither the white and the aboriginals. She feels like, she’s in the middle, like she doesn’t belong in a special place.

Heres a shot video about her:

http://stolengenerationstestimonies.com/index.php/testimonies/993.html