Just 10 when she and other Aboriginal children fled Croker Island when nearby Darwin was bombed during World War II, an influential grandmother's story is being kept alive by her grandchildren.
Eighty years ago, a little girl was just 10 when she and 94 other Aboriginal children of the stolen generation fled Croker Island when nearby Darwin was bombed by the Japanese during World War II.
Nida Lowe had been taken from her family in the Barkly region in the Northern Territory in the late 1930s as a child and spent time at the Kahlin compound in Darwin before she was moved to a mission on Croker Island, north-east of Darwin.and travel 5,000 kilometres over 44 days to Sydney by boat, foot, train and truck.
She sadly died in 2009 before some of her grandchildren, including Abbey and Hudson Ward, were able to get to know her.Hudson said he only has vague memories of his grandmother who died when he was young.Hudson, 17, has just vague memories of his grandmother because he was so young when she died. "If Nanna were here today, I would want to hear more of her stories, I would want to know how she got the courage to do what she did.
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