Buenos Aires Remembers AMIA Attack in Subway Display
Image by kamilia lahrichi
The Argentine capital opened up a permanent display at a subway station that it intends to rename in memory of victims of the 1994 AMIA terrorist attack on local Jews.
The commemorative display at the Pasteur subway station was unveiled Friday by the municipality and the SBASE metro company. City delegates will vote next month in a second reading of a bill to rename the station Pasteur/AMIA Memorial Station.
The station is located approximately 200 yards from the AMIA Jewish Community Center, where terrorists in 1994 set off explosives that killed 85 people and injured hundreds.
The display features drawings, paintings and photos by 25 artists and a clock that permanently indicates the exact moment of the explosion: July 18, 9:53 AM.
Municipal delegates voted in May unanimously in favor of renaming the station for the AMIA building. A second reading is scheduled for July 13.
“We [at] AMIA are very grateful to the artists that contribute with their talent and creativity to reshape Pasteur station [into] a place of a collective memory for thousands of people who will remember every day the AMIA attack,” AMIA president Leonardo Jmelnitzky told JTA.
The B Line, which stops at Pasteur station, transports approximately seven million passengers monthly. It is the most heavily-used line in the subway system of Buenos Aires.
This is a moment of great uncertainty. Here’s what you can do about it.
We hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, we’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s independent Jewish news this Passover. All donations are being matched by the Forward Board - up to $100,000.
This is a moment of great uncertainty for the news media, for the Jewish people, and for our sacred democracy. It is a time of confusion and declining trust in public institutions. An era in which we need humans to report facts, conduct investigations that hold power to account, tell stories that matter and share honest discourse on all that divides us.
With no paywall or subscriptions, the Forward is entirely supported by readers like you. Every dollar you give this Passover is invested in the future of the Forward — and telling the American Jewish story fully and fairly.
The Forward doesn’t rely on funding from institutions like governments or your local Jewish federation. There are thousands of readers like you who give us $18 or $36 or $100 each month or year.
Support our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
