Russian Schejne Maria LaskierThe woman who learned to hold back her tears died this Wednesday in Buenos Aires, a few hours after her 97th birthday. known as Sara RussianHe had been through so many extreme situations throughout his life that he was used to finding courage and not bursting into tears. He was born in 1927 in Lodz, Poland. was taken prisoner Auschwitz and Birkenau. Escaped from Europe and entered illegally Argentina It comes from Paraguay. Thirty-one years after being alive Nazismhis eldest son Daniel was a victim of the military dictatorship. he joined Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. He never lowered his arms or took off his white scarf. “I’m fighting not to forget. So the Nazis Germany “And those who are here will never have the power they have again,” he said.
Lodz was stunned by the arrival of Hitler’s army in 1939. His father Jacob was a tailor. His mother, Carola, cared for him devotedly. He started practicing the violin. A Nazi soldier destroyed it right in front of his face. Sara soon learned to avoid the clutches of barbarism at Auschwitz. He came to save his mother gas chamber. He never saw his father again. After spending two months in a concentration camp, he was sent to an aircraft factory in Germany. He had to rivet the wing plates with a compressed air gun. The Allied advance led him to another laboratory of death. Mauthausen, in Austria. “The day we arrived, the Red Cross occupied the field“. During her years in captivity, she met Bernardo. Together they left the European continent. Argentina promised them a world free of fear and the opportunity to start over. They had two children, Daniel and Natalia.
Years of the Argentine dictatorship
The wave of political violence in the early 1970s turned into a tsunami with the fall of the government. Isabel PeronOn March 24, 1976, concentration camps, fueled by the experiences of Nazism, were established in Argentina. The number of perpetrators who played Nazi songs or painted swastikas on the wall was not small. The pressure was harsh on Daniel, who worked for the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNA). “He was a very beautiful child. Excellent in every subject: graduated as a nuclear physicist“. He was kidnapped at the door of his job on July 15, 1977. The CNA was a special target of the army. Their anti-communist enthusiasm led them to ban the book ‘La cuba electrolítico’, considering it to be secret. It is not a container used for the decomposition of ionized substances, it is Castroism. Daniel was influenced by this paranoid enthusiasm He was his target. They put him in a van that afternoon. They never saw him again. Sara believes he was at the Naval Mechanical School (ESMA), the main secret center built right in front of the CNEA facilities.
History repeats itself, but not as nonsense. The family drama has found its second episode. Sara filed writs of habeas corpus, and she and her husband wrote letters to everyone, even the Pope. She joined the Mayo Mothers at the plaza. He was part of the initial core that circled the pyramid in that square as the police forced them to move. These returns were a ritual of resistance against the de facto Government, which did not hesitate to describe them as crazy. Sara was one of those crazy people who fell in love with their captured children and refused to accept the logic of State terrorism or the common sense that the regime tried to impose. In Buenos Aires, the Russian was part of a group of war survivors. “The saddest thing, Daniel, was when those people disappeared, Even the survivors began to move away from us due to the fear that existed in the country.“.
democratic years
The defeat of the dictatorship in the war to seize the Malvinas Islands in the autumn of 1982 accelerated the return to democracy. Her husband’s hopes were fading. He believed that if Daniel did not reappear within a few months, he would no longer have a place in the world. “He contracted a tumor and died on May 2, 1984.”
government Raul Alfonsin She was not even six months old when she became a widow. It never ceased to be one of the references of mothers. When they broke up in the 90s, he joined the group called Founding Line. His daughter gave him four grandchildren. Reopening cases against uniformed officers who violated human rights It opened a ray of hope. More than 300 lawsuits were filed, hundreds of oppressors were sued. former dictator Jorge Videla He died in a common prison. “Life gives me everything back. In the end, I always thank life”. She was 90 years old and still dancing. Until the last days, his relatives say that he could not believe what was happening in the country that adopted him: The executioners’ speeches were again in the public domain.