Children experience the world in vivid and indelible ways. For those who had to suffer the reality of the last Argentinian dictatorship (1976-1983), the memories of that time remain powerfully present.

The Future of Memory is made up of almost thirty testimonies, which between them provide a unique entry point into 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 as children whose parents were imprisoned and those children stolen by repressors. Woven throughout these are documentary sources and judicial procedures relating to their testimony, including historical notes to the political context of the dictatorship. By bringing together the past, the present and the time which has elapsed in between, Jaroslavsky conveys the ways in which memories shape our existence and understanding.

Introduction I 1
1 The dictatorship fan club I 5
RAMIRO AND MARTIN FRESNEDA
2 Cynicism I 15
ANA PAOLETTI
3 Thou shalt not kill I 26
WALTER MEZA NIELLA
4 The arrogance of firepower I 36
MARIA LAVALLE
5 The Argentinian Inquisition I 4 7
PABLO BALUSTRA
6 Slavery the American way I 53
LUIS AVILA
7 The sword and the cross I 58
MARTIN EZPELETA JR
8 Divine justice I 65
PABLO ERNESTO Dl VITO
9 Modernity I 71
AGUSTIN Dl TOFFINO
10 Subversion in the education system
(Getting to know our enemy) I 78
SANTIAGO DEL VALLE
11 National symbols I 85
MATIAS FACUNDO MORENO
12 Bombardment in Tucuman I 94
DAFNE ZAMUDIO
l3 Christian, Western ... (and white) I 100
JIMENA VICARIO
14 The Name ofthe Rose I 107
ERNESTO ANDREANI
15 Incredible as it may seem I 113
MARIA JULIA CORIA
16 Moral curriculum I 118
VERONICA CASTELLI
17 Five centuries later, nothing's changed I 123
MARIA CORONEL
18 Dictatorship and propaganda I 128
DEBORA VILLANUEVA
19 The World Cup, 1978 I 138
ALBA CAMARGO
20 Sincericide I 14 3
MARIANA EVA TELLO
21 Old friends I 150
EDUARDO NACHMAN
22 Metamorphosis I 157
JOSEFINA GIGLIO
23 Downhill I 165
NAZARENO BRAVO
24 Iceberg ahead I 172
MIGUEL CEBALLOS
25 The Rattenbach Report I 185
CAROLINA GHIGLIAZZA
26 Amnesty or amnesia or both I 195
DIEGO REYNAGA
2 7 The plague I 208
VICTORIA OLIVENCIA
28 Who, me? I 214
MARIANA EVA PEREZ
Historical Notes- by Alejandro Andreassi I 225
Glossary I 232
Bibliography I 234

"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

Andres Jaroslavsky

Andres Jaroslavsky has worked with a number of human rights organisations in Argentina; his father was disappeared in 1975. At the time of writing he lived in York , England, where he was a music teacher.