Work Meeting with Representatives from Argentina Sites of Memory

In the context of the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory’s candidacy to the Unesco World Heritage List, a meeting with representatives of Argentine Sites of Memory was held on Friday, December 13th, 2019 at the Mercosur’s Institute of Public Policies on Human Rights. The museum’s executive director Alejandra Naftal presented the nomination together with the team that is carrying out the Work Plan, which received the support of the attendees. Special guests from Brazil and Uruguay included the Institute’s executive secretary Juan Miguel González Bibolini and Daniel Tarnopolsky, representative of the former Esma’s Board of Human Right Organizations.

Some feedback from the guests

Ana Pecoraro – Former ESIM – Memory Lighthouse, Mar del Plata

«It is very helpful and relevant that the Sites of crimes against humanity are being recognized and preserved, both in the region and abroad, as Areas for Promotion and Defence of Human Rights, new State Institutions that carry out public policies. We believe that networking and articulation are essential, as it is to include provincial Sites of Memory into the project submitted to Unesco, because they are a proof of the systematic plan perpetrated by a terrorist State.»

Laura Duguine – Former Club Atlético, CABA

«We see the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory embarking on this candidacy as something very important that will surely have a positive result. We believe it will provide a boost to keep fighting for acknowledgement and, mostly, will help secure the budgets of every Argentine Site of Memory given their local and international relevance.»

Emiliano Fessia – Former La Perla, Córdoba

«We undoubtedly provide our institutional support to the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory’s candidacy because it is our political duty. In that sense, we must consolidate our institutional relations in order to strengthen the debate and make a joint claim of our part as co-participants on the planning of public policies».

Lucas Massuco – Museum of Memory, Rosario

«ESMA is a symbol of transforming death and impunity into justice and life. The ESMA Museum and Site of Memory’s candidacy is a chance to obtain a historical vindication of the Argentine process of Memory, Truth and Justice that is so unique in the world, and also a great opportunity to review and strengthen the links we Argentine sites have built over the years.»

María Coronel – Former Famaillá School, Tucumán

«The Argentine Sites of Memory constitute the country’s living memory, they allow us to imagine a future of inclusion and respect for human rights. The potential induction of the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory into the World Heritage List represents the recognition of this history as well as a huge opportunity to elevate the work of all the sites in the country.»

María Mendizábal – Former Olimpo, Buenos Aires

«We support the Unesco candidacy and highlight its importance. We believe it provides a chance to create reciprocity bonds between the former ESMA and other recovered Sites, and also to shed light on an idea of Memory that would not only include judicial truth but also other aesthetic and narrative forms.»

Lucía Capriotti – Former Campo de la Ribera, Córdoba

«This candidacy will be very important for the social collective that sustains the ‘Never Again’ and has fought for Memory Truth and Justice –and still does. The social collective that unites us Sites of Memory and the Human Rights Organizations, but also goes beyond us and is present throughout the country in many people, social organizations and institutions.»

María Eleonora Cristina – Provincial Memory Archives, Córdoba

«We view the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory’s candidacy as highly positive. Our everyday activity assures us that working with our recent past provides us with tools to build a present time based on tolerance and respect, and also a future in which democracy is stronger. Therefore, this candidacy represents us and speaks of the meaning the former ESMA has for the world and its functioning within the whole structure of State Terrorism.»

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