ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes how Argentine society incorporates the memories of its conflicted. It deals with political confrontations over interpretations of the past and about commemorations, and with the various layers of the most personal and even private memories. The chapter analyzes the process of societal remembering, looking at the various levels and layers in which this takes place the public/political context in which memory/oblivion of the military dictatorship unfolded. It presents some personal narratives, in which the traces and marks of that past emerge in the development of the life course and in the everyday experiences of people from three generations. In the midst of deep political conflict and widespread political violence, a military coup took place in Argentina in March 1976. In truth, political and ideological conflict in the early 1970s was extreme in Argentina. Under the circumstances of the political violence in Argentina in the mid-1970s, a local human rights movement gradually emerged.
