Shattered Lives Broken Dreams: William Cooper and Australian Aborigines Protest Holocaust
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William Cooper led the Australian Aborigines' League in a protest against Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass, recognised as the start of the Holocaust. They protested the "cruel persecution of the Jews" by marching to the German Consulate in Melbourne on 6 December 1938 three weeks after the 9-10 November pogrom in Germany, Austria and Sudetenland that saw 91 Jews killed, Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues destroyed with shattered glass or fire. About 30,00 Jews were sent to concentration camps. This book follows how the story was lost to history and then found with William Cooper being honoured in many ways by Jews in Australia and at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center in Israel. His family has carried on his legacy and the story covers his family's trip to Israel and Berlin in 2017 to continue his work. William Cooper was an Aboriginal man of the Yorta Yorta Nation and did ground-breaking work for the "uplift", as he called it, of his people but the only protest march he led was for the Jews and this was while he was not a citizen of his own land. It is truly an inspiring story.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0648472248
ISBN13:9780648472247
Release Date:January 2020
Publisher:Barbara Miller Books
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.04 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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