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Monumental

In 1996, I was asked to write a plaque for a Holocaust monument to be placed in Green Park, Sydney, opposite St Vincents' Hospital and near the Jewish Museum.

The monument was finally unveiled in 2001. I went there one weekend in April, 2004, Holocaust Memorial Weekend and took these photos.

 

I don't know if you can see the text clearly on the plaque...

It says:

We remember you who have suffered or died at the hands of others:

Women who have loved women;

Men who have loved men;

And all those who refused the gender roles others have wished us to play.

Nothing shall purge your deaths from our memories.

© 2004 Rosanne Bersten