Statement from a grandmother searching for her granddaughter

Introductory text (Spanish)

Chicha Mariani, fundadora de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, ya está muy viejita. Quiere alcanzar a reencontrarse con su nieta. Ayudémosla a que su carta recorra el mundo y, en una de esas, genere dudas en alguien...

Reenviemos la carta hasta al menos pensado. Que su llamado pueda recorrer nuevos circuitos, que no quede restringido a personas vinculadas a organizaciones de derechos humanos, que pueda llegar hasta Clara Anahí !!!!

Gracias

Introductory text (English translation)

Chicha Mariani, one of the original founders of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, is very old. She wants to live long enough to reunite with her granddaughter. Let us help her by circulating her letter around the world, and, generate doubts in someone that reads it…

We will resend her letter until it is our last thought. Hope that her call can enter new circles, and not be restricted only to people in human rights organizations, and one day reach Clara Anahí.

Thank you.

Her letter

Her letter (English translation)

My dear granddaughter:

I am your grandmother “Chicha” Chorobik de Mariani, and I have been looking for you since the moment Etchecolatz, Camps and their troops killed your mother and kidnapped you from your home on 1134 30th Street in La Plata, Argentina. It was on November 24, 1976 and you were three months old. From that moment, along with your father, we have been looking for you, until he too was murdered.

Despite the fact that they tried to convince me that you were killed during the shootout, I knew you were alive. Today it has been proven that you survived and are under someone’s care. You are 31 years old and your identity card number is probably close to 25.476.305 like the one you were given at birth. I ask you to look for photos from when you were a baby and compare them to the one accompanying this text.

I want to tell you that your paternal grandfather was involved with music and I with painting; that your maternal grandfather and grandmother were involved with science, that your mother loved literature and your father was graduate in economics. Both had a great sense of solidarity and commitment to society. Some of this you must have in your own inclinations in life because, despite the fact that you were raised in a different home, one keeps one's ancestors genes internally. Surely there are many questions without answers that flutter within you.

For my more than 80 years, my wish has been to hug you and recognize myself in your eyes. I would like you to come to me so that this long quest and my greatest desire that keeps me on my feet becomes concrete, that we find each other.

Clara Anahí, while I wait for you, I will continue to look for you.