Uncle James Michael 'Widdy' Welsh was taken from his family in Coonamble, in central NSW, when he was eight years old.
He was taken hundreds of kilometres away to the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Home, in Kempsey on the state's mid north coast.
"When we went through those gates, that little child didn't exist anymore," Uncle Widdy told AAP.
"We were given numbers, we were put in a way that we were ...
