Conversation with Miriam Lewin: Argentine journalist, writer, concentration camp survivor and witness in human rights trials
As a young political activist, Ms. Lewin was kidnapped in 1977 and spent a year in a clandestine torture center in Buenos Aires. She then spent another 10 months in the notorious ESMA concentration camp where 5,000 people were killed. Ms. Lewin is one of the few survivors.
In 1985 she testified as a witness in the trial of former Junta commanders. When the trials resumed in 2006 she continued to offer testimony, this time focusing on the appropriation of babies stolen from pregnant women and on sexual crimes committed against female prisoners.
As a print, radio and TV journalist, Ms. Lewin has received numerous awards. Some of her investigative reports helped identify Navy officers who in the 1970s piloted the planes (“death flights”) from which prisoners were thrown alive into the ocean.
Ms. Lewin and four other female survivors of ESMA published Ese Infierno (That Inferno: Conversations of Five Women Survivors of an Argentine Torture Camp) in 2001. Her most recent book written with Olga Wornat, Putas y Guerrilleras (2014), discusses sexual violence and the treatment of female prisoners in concentration camps during the military dictatorship.
Please join us for an informal book presentation and conversation in English with Miriam Lewin:
March 23, 2015 – 6:00-7:30 pm
Room 1199 Urban Life Building
(11th floor of Urban Life Building, Decatur St. and Piedmont Ave.)
Georgia State University
Pizzas and refreshments will be provided
Co-sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and Democracy; Global Studies Institute; Department of Political Science; Institute for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights in Argentina Study Abroad Program
For more information contact Dr. Fernando Reati at freati@gsu.edu
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