“Hasta ser Victoria” was edited by Marea Editorial. (Photo: Ferrari Raul)
The deputy carries the Front of All (FdT) and restored granddaughter Victoria Montenegro presented his book this Tuesday “Until being Victoria“, in which he recounts his path towards the restitution of his identity, within the framework of the celebration of the” month of the right to identity “.
The event took place in the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) and the president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Stela of Carlotto; the journalist Claudio Villarruel and the director of Marea Editorial, Constanza Brunet.
Montenegro recounted his childhood as Mara Sol Tetzlaff (the name she received when it was appropriate), the process of recovery and acceptance of her identity, her activity in Abuelas and her beginnings in political life.
On February 13, 1976, a task force commanded by Colonel Herman Antonio Tetzlaff broke into his home, in the Buenos Aires town of William Morris, and I kidnapped her when she was thirteen days old together with his parents. Tetzlaff appropriated Victoria, chose a new name for her, and educated her according to the ideology behind state terrorism.
Montenegro defines herself as “daughter of Toti Montenegro and Hilda Torres, disappeared by state terrorism“.
He said that “I appeared in 2000. What I felt was that my blood was dirty. I thought that my father (Tetzlaff) was not going to love me any more. I was very ashamed to say that ‘I was the daughter of subversion'”. And he added: “At one point, my appropriator told me that there was a confrontation, that he had saved my life. And I thanked him that he had raised me despite being a daughter of one of his enemies.”
Photo: Ferrari Raul)
“In my case I never looked for my identity Montenegro said to Tlam; I did everything possible so that justice could not advance in finding me because I did not believe that the disappeared people existed, for me it was a matter of political persecution towards my father who was a soldier who had fought for the country, but the Grandmothers did not give up ” .
Carlotto pointed out that “at first Victoria could not even see me, she did not want to know anything. It was like a hatred, especially for the deceitful upbringing of the thieves of these children, but we knew we had to wait. And Today we see it and it is an example. Working every day for others“.
“Without a doubt it is a book that is full of contradictions that I have lived through. Today it is about sowing memory and building a different Argentina,” concluded Montenegro.
And Carlotto highlighted: “We want and we have to make the country that the 30 thousand disappeared want“.
Among those present were also human rights referents such as Rosa Rosinblit, Lita Boitano, Taty Almeida, Buscaita Roa, as well as the Minister of Culture, Tristan Bauer; the Treasury Attorney, Carlos Zannini; the national senator Mariano Recalde, the candidates for the Frente de Todos for deputy and legislator Leandro Santoro and Alejandro Amor; the porters legislators Claudio Ferreo, Javier Andrade and Matas Barroetavea; the president of the Tlam agency, Bernarda Llorente, and the general secretary of ATE Capital, Daniel Catalano.
The event was held at the Kirchner Cultural Center. (Photo: Ferrari Raul)
Bauer told Tlam: “The presentation was of a deep emotion, listen to Victoria Montenegro surrounded by so many Grandmothers. For us memory, truth and justice are fundamental. That Victoria has had the courage to translate her life into words seems to me to be a true marvel, and doing this event at the CCK is also very important. “
Recalde expressed that “it is important to accompany Vicky today and always because she is a friend and these testimonies that leave in writing the memory of a tremendous past to which we do not want to return must be always present and disseminated, there was no possibility of not being here today “.
Photo: Ferrari Raul)
“Hasta ser Victoria” was edited by Marea Editorial and has prologues by Carlotto and the Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation Horacio Pietragalla Corti.
The meeting ended with a group photo shouting “30 thousand detained and disappeared companions. Present! Now and forever!
