Diana Arón
Diana Arón | |
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Born | Diana Frida Arón Svigilisky February 15, 1950 |
Disappeared | November 18, 1974 Villa Grimaldi, Santiago, Chile |
Died | November 1974 (aged 24) |
Nationality | Chilean |
Occupation | journalist political activist |
Diana Frida Arón Svigilisky (February 15, 1950 – November 1974) was a Chilean journalist[1] and a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria.[2] She was kidnapped, tortured and forcibly disappeared by agents of the Pinochet dictatorship.
Biography[]
She studied at the Hebrew Institute and then journalism at the Catholic University, developed her professional practice on Canal 13, belonging to the same university. After graduating, she worked as a reporter for Onda magazine of Editorial Quimantú.[3] Arón was a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria and as such she was part of the editorial team of El Rebelde newspaper.
Disappearance[]
After the 1973 military coup, Arón was forced to go underground. On November 18, 1974, she was arrested by agents of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) (Chilean secret police) and taken to Villa Grimaldi, where she was tortured by Miguel Krassnoff, who was seen leaving the torture room with bloody hands, screaming "a communist, and on top of that, a Jew!".[4] After that she was forcibly disappeared and her body was never found.[5]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Google Translate". translate.google.com. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ Memoria Viva caso Diana Arón
- ^ Editora Quimantu
- ^ Guzmán J., Nancy (2000). Romo: Confesiones de un torturador. Grupo Planeta. p. 149. ISBN 9789562472647.
- ^ Caso Aron: Suprema anula amnistía y confirma condena a cúpula DINA
External links[]
- Diana Arón en Una Historia Necesaria
- Ernesto Carmona. Morir es la Noticia. Santiago de Chile: Ernesto Carmona Editor. 1998
- 1950 births
- 1970s missing person cases
- 1974 deaths
- Chilean Jews
- Chilean revolutionaries
- Chilean socialists
- Chilean women journalists
- Forced disappearances in Chile
- Kidnapped people
- Missing person cases in Chile
- People killed in Operation Condor
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