Rosa Roisinblit, activist for Argentina's 'stolen' children, dies at 106

Buenos Aires (Argentina) (AFP) – Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit, a prominent activist for victims of Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship, died Saturday, her organization said. She was 106.

Issued on: 07/09/2025 - 03:55
Modified: 07/09/2025 - 03:53

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Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit photographed at her home in Buenos Aires on July 20, 2016 © JUAN MABROMATA / AFP/File


"We only have words of gratitude for her dedication, her solidarity and the love with which she searched for the grandsons and granddaughters until the very end," the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo campaign group said in a statement.

Roisinblit was born in 1919 in Moises Ville, a town of Jewish immigrants in central Argentina, and was an obstetrician by trade.

Alongside other mothers whose family members disappeared during Argentina's dictatorship, Roisinblit demanded to know the whereabouts of her missing relatives.

Her pregnant daughter Patricia Roisinblit and son-in-law -- both militants of the armed Peronist group Montoneros -- were kidnapped in 1978.

Patricia is believed to have given birth in a basement before the baby was taken from her. She and her husband's bodies were never found.

More than 20 years later, in 2000, Roisinblit was reunited with her grandson Guillermo through her activist organization.

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