The Mark of A Thousand Memories

BUENOS AIRES — Heat so heavy you can taste it. Crammed onto creaky wooden walkways, feet constantly fighting for balance, you wander around windowless rooms and snake around unlit corridors, each step forward bringing the walls in closer, and closer, and closer. Your heart beating bruises into the underside of your ribs, an unsettling sense of paranoia urges you to maintain a sense of vigilance. You have no idea where this fear came from, but you can feel it everywhere, clinging even more closely than the clothes on your clammy shoulders. Discomfort tends to run deep in places of humanitarian horror. Even 40 years later, the ESMA is no exception, its stones still harboring the scars of those brought for torture during Argentina’s 1976–1983 dictatorship. With memories of pain, panic, and punishment etched into the walls, the ESMA’s nomination for UNESCO status aims to ensure these memories are never forgotten. <a href="https://nyulocal.com/the-mark-of-a-thousand-memories-b9efdd5da40d">Click Here</a>