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Some 3,000 Jews disappeared without trace during Argentina’s ‘dirty wars’ in the 1970s and ’80s. A new documentary, ‘Bronca!,’ following a father-and-son team seeking justice for at least one of themOctober 15th, 21PM October 15th, 21PM
Ten years ago, Tomer Slutzky was gearing up for what has become a rite of passage for many young Israelis: a post-army trek through South America.
His plans were upended, however, when his father Shlomo convinced him to join him on a different sort of adventure – coincidentally, in the same part of the world.
Instead of packing up his hiking gear, Tomer would end up stuffing a camera into his bag and following his father on what he describes as a “documentary journey.”
Their mission: seeking justice for a relative whose partly cut-off face appears in a photo taken at Tomer’s grandparents’ wedding.
That relative was Samuel Slutzky, a 41-year-old physician last seen in 1977 when he was arrested by the Argentine military junta during the so-called “dirty wars.” He was taken to a torture center in the Buenos Aires suburb of La Plata, never to return.
Samuel’s son, Mariano, would end up testifying at the trial of the officers and officials who ran this notorious detention center, known as “La Cacha,” where 128 prisoners died during Argentina’s seven-year military dictatorship.
Shlomo Slutzky, a journalist and documentary filmmaker who had immigrated to Israel in 1976 (soon after the right-wing coup), had come to cover the trial, which opened in 2013 and concluded in October 2014.
His cousin Samuel was among an estimated 3,000 Jews who disappeared without trace during those years. Two dozen officers and agents would eventually be convicted, many of them sentenced to life in prison.
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