‘I died in that place’: survivors of NSW’s Kinchela Aboriginal boys home seek truth and reconciliation

Uncle Roger Jarrett was just 11 years old when he was taken to Kinchela Aboriginal boys home near Kempsey in NSW. Photograph: Sarah Collard/The Guardian

Uncle Roger Jarrett was 11 when he was stripped of his name, culture and identity – for the next six years he was known as No 12.

He was taken to the notorious Kinchela Aboriginal boys home, to where children from all over the state were removed under brutal government policies designed to cleve children from kin and culture from 1924 to 1970.