This is one of the most unknown places of ESMA. It was the residence assigned to whoever held the position of Director of the Navy School of Mechanics. Although we do not have photographs from that time, its dimensions tell us it was a luxury home.
During the 1976–1979 period, the director of the ESMA was Rubén Jacinto Chamorro. He used this place as his residence and would frequently invite his family to spend the weekends. Between 1976 and 1977, his daughter invited one of her school friends, Andrea Krichmar, to have lunch and spend the day at ESMA.
This area features a screen that plays Andrea Krichmar’s court testimony at the Trial of the Military Junta in 1985, where she describes how she saw through a window that ‘a hooded, shackled woman was taken down the staircase after being forced out of a Ford Falcon by two men who were pointing a gun at her.’