The video installation addresses the disappearance of Jewish women and girls who were abducted and transported to Argentina during the period — as victims of human trafficking. It seeks to elucidate their history. The location shown in the video installation is in an overgrown Jewish cemetery in Buenos Aires, in which some of these women and girls are buried. The action and performance on which the video installation is based comprises two acts.
In Buenos Aires there is a Jewish cemetery in which prostitutes and their pimps lie buried. In many of the graves lie the remains of Eastern European Jewish women who were trafficked to Argentina in the period — by the Jewish pimp ring Zwi Migdal. A burial in the Jewish tradition was important to members of the pimp ring. Raquel Liberman — numbers among the women buried in this cemetery in Buenos Aires. Raquel Liberman emigrated with her two young children from Warsaw to Argentina in The dire economic situation and her impoverished circumstances drove her into prostitution.
After secretly putting money aside for a while, she was able to open an antique shop and begin a new life.
However, the ring did not appreciate a prostitute trying to escape its influence and gain independence. Raquel was therefore recaptured and forced back into prostitution.
Only after the military coup of in Argentina was Raquel Liberman able to avenge her suffering. No less than individuals faced charges. She was a woman of incredible courage and resolve. She escaped the prostitution milieu, drew public attention to her fate, pressed charges in court against the pimp ring and thus saved the lives of several other women trapped in forced prostitution.
