After 1977, the ESMA Task Force started to organize a new system and environment for detained pregnant women in order to keep them alive until they gave birth. The newborns were generally handed over to members of the repressive forces or their relatives. The pregnant women were placed in a cell called ‘Pregnant Women’s Room’. The women staying here did not have access to any kind of medical attention. ESMA Director Rubén Jacinto Chamorro used to call this place ‘The Unofficial Sardá’ or ‘Little Sardá’, in reference to the popular Sardá Maternity, a public hospital in Buenos Aires.
In this place, the museum team designed an exhibition that is both opposite and complementary to Capuchita: a space filled by very intense white light. At the same time, we hear the voice of Sara Solarz de Osatinsky, a survivor who witnessed many of the births.