Showing posts with label Esma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Esma. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Dagmar Hagelin: a Swedish Teenage Girl



Dagmar Hagelin, age 17, a swedish girl, living in Buenos Aires, was shot and kidnapped on January 27th, 1977 by Alfredo Astiz, a member of task force 332 (GT332), based in the Navy Mechanics School (Spanish initials: ESMA: Escuela Mecanica de La Armada, a secret detention center, and extermination camp in the capital, Buenos Aires). She was carried to the ESMA, wounded but alive. At least three survivors of the ESMA saw Dagmar and talked to her in captivity. She was mentally sound and her physical condition was improving when she was finally killed by her captors.
Dagmar Hagelin was kidnapped by mistake, and her disapperance became an international problem to the Argentine dictatorship. To prevent leaks about the atrocities in the ESMA, Dagmar's captors decided to kill her in cold blood.
She never came back.
 
 
 
THIS IS A STORY BASED ON THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DAGMAR. LANGUAGES OF THE MOVIE:  ENGLISH, SPANISH AND SWEDISH.


Sunday, 23 November 2014

Shadows of Memory - 'Our Disappeared / Nuestros Desaparecidos"

How does Argentina remember the desaparecidos? How do we fully embrace the memory of our disappeared? In this short video essay I explore some of the ways the memories are kept alive -- through marches, remembrances in newspapers, in public school memorials, through art, in a park by the river that became their grave. For Argentina the task of remembering is hard work, but the thousands of disappeared souls deserve no less.

About the making of the documentary, "Our Disappeared / Nuestros Desaparecidos". See www.ourdisappeared.com for information about the film.