Family Tree 1: Daphrose's Family
How do you begin to describe losing your family? How can you describe this to an audience that cannot really imagine the extent of that loss? Daphrose’s daughter Marcella told us about her family: a family of thirty-seven people across three generations. Only four survived the Genocide. But these are just numbers - numb expressions of loss.
We meticulously copied down everything that Marcella could remember. Her brothers’ and sisters’ details, the names of the children, the hint of those yet to be baptised. At times she couldn’t remember their names and things she did remember were confused. Traumatic memory ‘they’ call it.
To ask her to recall it in detail was a burden on her but one she shared with us so that others might know her family once existed.
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