Vera

Overview

Vera Jarach, Italian, Jewish, and a Founding Mother of Plaza de Mayo. Her grandfather was murdered in Auschwitz. Her daughter, Franca Jarach, was murdered by the Argentine civic-military dictatorship in Buenos Aires in 1976. Vera's story appears in this documentary connected to the speech that the writer Julio Cortázar gave at the Paris Colloquium in 1981, "Denial of Forgetting," and with the testimonies of 12 people who share aspects of their identity with her.