Sobrevivir dos veces: de Auschwitz a Madre de Plaza de Mayo : relato testimonial de Sara Rus

Presents the text of interviews conducted by Eisenstaedt with Sara Rus (née Laskier), who was born in Łódź in 1927. They discuss her experiences in the Shoah, and the kidnapping of her eldest son, Daniel Lázaro, by the Argentine secret police in 1977. In 1940, Sara and her family were interned in the Łódź ghetto. Her father was taken in one of the first deportations. In July 1944 she and her mother were deported to Auschwitz. Seven weeks later, they were transferred to an airplane factory in Freiberg, Germany, and after eight months to the Mauthausen camp where they were liberated. In 1946, Sara was reunited with her boyfriend Beno (Bernardo), who was also from Łódź. He had survived in the ghetto until 1944. Then he was deported to Auschwitz and soon transferred to a factory in Görlitz, Germany, where he and other prisoners were liberated by Soviet troops. After marrying in 1948, Sara and Beno immigrated to Argentina. In July 1977, their son was kidnapped and never returned. He was one of the 1,900 Jewish "desaparecidos" during the Junta regime. According to the CONADEP (National Commission of the Disappeared) the number of Jewish victims was 12 times the number of non-Jewish victims in proportion to their percentage in the population. Also, Jewish victims suffered from especially brutal treatment in the detention centers just because they were Jews.