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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: Tessa Bridal, "The Dark Side of Memory: Uruguay's Disappeared Children and the Families Who Never Stopped Searching" (Invisible Ink, 2021)
Description: I sat down with award winning author Tessa Bridal to talk about her latest book, The Dark Side of Memory: Uruguay's Disappeared Children and the Families Who Never Stopped Searching, published by Invisible Ink (October 2021). The Dark Side of Memory examines the largely unknown history of the state sponsored kidnapping of children in Uruguay and Argentina during the Cold War. For this book, Bridal interviewed parents, family members, and the children (now adults) for first person accounts detailing the circumstances of the kidnappings and the illegal adoption of newborns from the torture centers where they were born. Mothers and grandmo...