Daily News | Uncovering the forgotten lives lost at Pennhurst State School and Hospital
l, and the shame helped usher in reform. But so many individual tragedies were lost. The earliest Pennhurst files were stored safely in state archives. But many others gathered dust for decades in rusty cabinets in abandoned rooms at Norristown State Hospital before being moved.
“This is an opportunity to know the historical roots of stigma — to understand the history we are living out,” said Nicki Pombier, an oral history artist who worked on, and a parent of a child with intellectual and developmental disabilities. “Here is the evidence. Look at it.”Some community archivists researched dozens of files before deciding on a life to tell. Other archivists, like Ramona Griffiths, an advocate for families of people with disabilities, opened one and never shut it.
For her part, Pombier, who lives in Brooklyn, recalled transcribing Williams’ file, with all its dehumanizing descriptions, while her son, Jonah, who has Down syndrome, autism, and hearing loss, sat eating dinner nearby.
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