The District Six Museum : The Map on the Floor

Using a map on the floor of the District Six Museum, guide Noor Ebrahim
shows us where he used to live:

(Transcript of video clip soundtrack)

I used to live on a street called Caledon Street, which was right here. Let me show you. This is called Caledon Street and Horsburg Lane. So my house was right on the corner there. Now this map, this map is very, very powerful. The same what we did with the cloth, what we did is... When people come in, they will write their names where they used to live. Let me tell you a story quickly. About six months ago a lady came in here. She was about 95 years old. She went down on her knees, wrote her name on the map and then she started crying and we couldn't stop her, it was so emotional. And the question always comes up: why did they do this? That's always the question. So this map is very, very powerful. We still have people, people still come in and cry. Then they think back: this was my home before. Where's it now? It's gone

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