La vitalidad del testimonio Acerca de la experiencia del Archivo Oral en Memoria Abierta

Abstract

Memoria Abierta’s Oral Archive produces testimonies referring to the memory of State terrorism in Argentina and the different actions taken by Human Rights organizations and civil society in the search for Truth and Justice. The interviews, which contain both stories and memories of personal experiences, offer visions of history not always present in written documents and constitute a fundamental contribution to the documentation, study and interpretation of this historic process. The obtained testimonies form part of an audiovisual archive that
is open to the public and can be consulted by researchers, students and historians interested in the study of that period. In this paper we present the work we do in these 10 years and methodological and theoretical reflections about the use of testimony for understanding complex social process.