Overview

• Madres de Plaza de Mayo – Línea Fundadora confirmed Jarach’s passing at 97 on October 3, 2025.
• Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner mourned her on social media, posting their last photo together with the message “Te vamos a extrañar.”
• Born in Milan in 1928, she fled fascist racial laws as a child and later spoke of her grandfather’s murder at Auschwitz.
• A journalist with ANSA, she contacted APDH after her daughter’s abduction, joined the Madres in 1977, co-founded the Fundación Memoria Histórica y Social Argentina, served on the exESMA board, took part in Memoria Abierta, and promoted commemorations at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires.
• Her daughter, Franca, was kidnapped in 1976 and is believed to have been a victim of the ESMA death flights, and Jarach obtained Argentine dual nationality last year after initiating the request in 2023.