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The objective of this paper is to reflect upon the possibilities and specificities of working with oral sources through the use of oral history and narrative as a methodology in the study of the memories based on the investigation of a case study. The project is about representations of people who disappeared and/or were assassinated and is called«Mosaicos por la Memoria» (Mosaics for Memory) of the Space of Culture and Memory, el Rancho Urutaú, in the city of Ensenada, Buenos Aires Province (2010-2017). The project is materialized through murals with a mosaic technique placed in the neighbourhoods to which the people celebrated belonged. The methodological approach led to the carrying out of twenty-nine interviews of members of the group, relatives and acquaintances which were treated as oral sources and representative stories, allowing understanding and interpretation of the feelings which resulted from the deeds on the local scale: the memories of Ensenada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to reconstruct the actions developed by the Sherit Hapleitá Association of Survivors of the Nazi Regime in Argentina, during the Six-Day War in the Middle East. It also seeks to analyze the operation of an "Argentinian" narrative regarding this experience and the survival of Nazism as legitimating discourse for both the existence of Israel and its actions. In this sense, the interventions of Holocaust survivors were particularly meaningful because they took place in a national context in which narratives of the nationalist right and those of leftist organizations in process of radicalization, questioned the loyalty of Jews to the Argentine nationality, as well as the legitimacy of Sionism as political adscription. The research was based on the documentary archive of the president of the organization at the time, as well as a study of the written press during period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines images and representations of the politics of Argentinian youth during the sixties in the XXth century, through oral interviews and publications of that period. The analyzed archive takes into account young people who were neither involved in a political party, nor did they participate in armed groups. After finishing school, this "other youth" went into the labor market and did not develop a college degree, traversing different cultural and political paths. In this way, an analysis of the social attitudes and political behavior of these subjects will be made, taking into account the political and institutional processes that characterized the decade of the sixties in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]