The oral histories do not always coincide with those written in full, minus six decades later. And even less if they are included in the media, when clear that yesterday and today just write "a" version of history.
But beyond that, the important thing, at least for me, is the perception, what memories of these stories side left in their characters.
This post was based, as usual in this blog, in media accounts (this, as you can see, is a blog that attempts to restore journalistic discourses.)
The story was also told to "be late" (Santa Fe Radio Nacional) on Tuesday. The program decided to deepen it and transcribe here and let the audios of interviews with Robert Pacitti (One of the survivors) and Rovitti Teresa, daughter of Carmen. Roberto
was five years old when the tragedy occurred when one of his brothers died. Inevitably, his voice breaking in some sections.
My father had a boat, marine engine that, a small boat, we were four guys who were brothers, we went from 3 years to 12 or 13, my father and then the other girl's marriage was the foreman, Cerchiaro, was a baby of another couple, Martinez and his mother. We leave a ride on a boat, when we crossed the creek Santa Fe, we went to enter the Valente, the boat slammed into a pole that was not seen, had cut a tree, had left the trunk, growing had covered, hit the boat and tombs, and well, my eldest brother and I embrace the fall and get more or less stay afloat but one of my brothers struck the boat and went down, died. After Cerchiaro daughter too, baby, and Martinez's son also died.
And we survived, we got Carmen, which was 20 meters from the coast, which was a family of fishermen and came over felt the screams, came with the canoe and we took out one by one, Martinez's mother, my father, who had floated to my younger brother and both of us. After that my father gave thanks Carmen and family a house in the Centennial, where they lived many years and then the sons and daughters of them have had long relations of friendship.
Rovitti Teresa, 71, remembers the pain of her mother after failing to rescue the three children who died that afternoon in 1949, and the three white crosses placed on the island and for which long The stream time Valenti was also known as the stream "Of the three crossings."
The shock caused the tragedy not only in Santa Fe but also throughout the country was documented in the newspapers of the time, and marked in the lives of all members Rovitti family. President Juan Domingo Peron Carmen decorated for his courage, helped the family of islanders to have another life and new jobs. But the arrival of the "Liberating Revolution", things changed a lot:
By this act that my mother had left very persecuted, because there was such hatred, there was no democracy. Iban, we broke everything, the police raided us. I know that my father had been imprisoned for having this relationship with Perón at the time that we were watched, were persecuted.
The medal, one was sold. Carmen and her husband died young, radically island, detached from it.
We had our field, where my mother made the bailout lot and then they bought, and had a ranch that my father seemed to have roots there and he went, he fished, had a horse, had a sheep and a pig was in the habit of coming and going, these roots are not the draw but I could tell, it started to take, very lonely, got sick, went and sold those things very valuable, more shameless is that bought them, because it could not buy one, it was called my mother and said winning the value and the signature of Juan Domingo Peron in relief, there was a medal that had three fingers and four inches by two and a half, was one and the other was Chiquitita, those that can be put in the eyelets of the bag. Whoever bought it and abused it, I was married with a bunch of kids and my financial situation could not go to rescue her, all that was a disgrace, that was lost, but in this way.
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