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Outlook
A family's secret library and the Dirty War
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30 July 2025
41 minutes
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Literature hidden from destruction during Argentina's Dirty War.
Siblings Luis and Ana Gerchunoff remember a moment of chaos at home: as children, both of them scrambling to gather and conceal their father's vast library behind a secret wall. It was 1976 when Argentina was under a brutal military dictatorship. Books were blacklisted and burned and people routinely disappeared. Their father was a leftist intellectual - he and his beloved books, which included limited edition poetry by the great Pablo Neruda, were in danger. (This episode was first broadcast in August 2023)
Presenter: Clayton Conn
Producer: Maryam Maruf
Lost & Found theme music by Danny Greenwald
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(Photo: Ana and Luis Gerchunoff. Credit: Clayton Conn)
