2023-09-30 20:56:41
The exhibition “Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Founding Line”, organized by Casa Nuestros Hijos-La Vida y La Esperanza, aims to “keep alive the memory and transmission of the recent past to new generations” and “describe the struggle to Human Rights through stories, voices and experiences.”
With the aim of putting fighting strategies at the center through stories, voices and experiences, Casa Nuestros Hijos – La Vida y La Esperanza inaugurated the permanent exhibition “Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Founding Line” in the first act at ExEsma after UNESCO recognized the Site of Memory Museum as World Heritage of Humanity.
“It is very exciting to leave the permanent exhibition open so that schools, teachers and young people come to learn, think, ask about what happened and what we did with what happened,” said Jaime Perczyk, Minister of Education, together with the Secretary of Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla and the Founding Line Mothers, Taty Almeida, Nora Cortiñas, Clara Weinstein and Carmen Lareu.
The exhibition is an initiative of Mothers and the Ministry of Education and is proposed “Keeping alive the memory and transmission of the recent past to new generations”agreed from that organization and the portfolio during the activity.
In turn, Pietragalla agreed to highlight the value of the proposal: “Is beautiful and it highlights colleagues, like Jaime (Perczyk), who put Human Rights on the agenda of their management.”
A few minutes before, on the first floor of the Casa Nuestros Hijos, Taty had celebrated the opening of the memory space, “something,” he said, “that today some want to disappear.” And, while he recognized the workers who shouldered the different works with the delivery of handkerchiefs, he added that “they are not going to achieve it while there are people like you and us.”
Conceived as a legacy for new generations, the space inside the exESMA brings together various portraits of the Mothers with their emblematic white scarf and more than a thousand documentary and audiovisual records compiled from national archives and also from the Human Rights organization itself.
In addition to the photo tour, the second floor proposes different axes such as Media, search and visibility strategies, daily life and parents of the Plaza, a mention for those who did not form an organization, although they were always present.
“We believe in the State and in rights, in public education and this is part of transmitting it. “This is putting value on school and public education,” said Perczyk from the stage of the event, which was attended by national authorities, various human rights organizations, relatives of victims of the last dictatorship, teachers’ unions, university students and representatives. politicians, among others.
“In these times when some want to erase memory, we tell them that they are not going to achieve it because we are firm and we do not lower our arms,” he said. Taty before unveiling the museum plaque and handing a white handkerchief to the Minister of Education of the Nation.
“The building was not declared heritage, But UNESCO recognizes everything that the Museum transmits.”Pietragalla recalled about the nomination of the United Nations body, which recognized that in “the dictatorial process had the objective of liquidating and disappearing the political enemy.”
In that sense, both the Secretary of Human Rights and the minister expressed their concern about the messages from some political sectors. We celebrate 40 years of democracy, but there are issues that seemed to be settled and reappear, as the very essence of the State,” Perczyk assessed.
“We have to be proud of the resistance of Grandmothers and Mothers, of Human Rights organizations and those who were able to recover their identity”said Pietragalla at the event in which the legislators for the City, Victoria Montenegro and Gabriela Alegre, participated; the Ombudsman of CABA, María Rosa Muiños; the general secretary of SUTEBA, Roberto Baradel; the general secretary of the autonomous CTA, Hugo Godoy; and director of Education for Human Rights, Gender and ESI of the Ministry of Education, Celeste Adamoli, among others.
With the participation artistic of the Big Band (Hurlingham University orchestra), Coro Quiero Retruco and the popular school of music, This Monday’s event marked the inauguration of the permanent exhibition “Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. Línea Fundadora”, which will be open to the general public, schools and teachers in around 15 days.
Source: Web
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