We went on a short field-trip today to El Museo de la Memoria in my Human Rights class, a museum designed not to show memories, but to build them in people as to not let them be forgotten.Like many public services in Argentina, this museum was free.
In 2010, what was once a house known as "Casa de los Padres" became renovated into what stands today.
It is a museum to build memories, because after serving its time as a house it was used for over 25 years as a Concentration Camp for citizens and residents of Argentina during the politically unstable years of the Military Dictatorship that ensued.
Police and special military forces were used to "dissapear" thousands of innocent citizens between 1976-1983, whom the tyranical government called a threat to right-wing idealism.
The photograph above is a puzzle with missing pieces for all the people from this house who are still "disappeared".
To this day Argentines have banded together to keep an army from reforming in the country, and to make sure that no one forgets the trajedy that has happened, and can happen when corrupt individuals are given total power.
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