The Future of Memory Children of the Dictatorship in Argentina speak

The Future of Memory is made up of almost thirty testimonies, which between them provide a unique entry point understanding those years and their legacy . Interviews with young Argentinians from all over the country are the centre of the book. These include children of parents disappeared or murdered during the last dictatorship, children of families who had to flee the country due to persecution, as well a children whose parents were imprisoned and those children stolen by repressors.

Woven through these are documentary sources and judicial procedures relating to their testimony, including historical notes to the political context and the time which has elapsed in between, Jaroslavsky conveys the ways in which memories shape our existence an understanding.

"These testimonies are to be welcomed. They show what the eyes of some women and men saw when they survived the extermination of their parents. Those eyes were young when the horror took place and now they help us to see." Eduardo Galeano

Andrés Jaroslavsky has worked with a number of human rights organisations in Argentina; his father was disappeared in 1975. He lives in York, England, where he is a music teacher.