Names and News - Woman of the cloth

woman of the cloth Julia Brennan has spent most of her career working for collectors, museums and private clients. She has repaired the clothes of historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln and mended family heirlooms In the past few years. However, the 62 year old textile conserve a ter has taken on jobs that are not only technically, but also emotionally difficult. She has been reducing the damaging effects of time on textiles that tell the stories of human rights atrocities. Some of the clothes Brennan has been repairing belonged to prisoners at a former Comeere Rouge prison in Cambodia in the 1970s. Others belong to people killed in a church during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. The torn and sometimes bloody textiles show signs of the violent ways. People were killed by repairing the clothes, Brennan hopes to help future generations remember the atrocities as she told the new york times, the garments are a record of a person and an era. Okay, did you get the answer to our question, When was the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s. The answer is 1994. Listen again, Others belong to people killed in a church during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, if you didn't get the answer the first time, go back and listen to the text again,