Miriam Lewin

Miriam Lewin (born 27 November 1957) is an Argentine journalist and writer. Lewin was a political activist during the National Reorganization Process and was kidnapped and disappeared by the junta. In 1985, she testified at the Trial of the Juntas.

Early life Lewin was born in 1957.

Lewin studied at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires from 1970 to 1974, obtaining her bachelor's degree there along with a certificate from a workshop in theater. She studied journalism in 1975 under Eduardo Suárez, a member of the Montoneros, at the Escuela de Periodismo del Instituto Grafotécnico, where the phrase "objective journalism is a fantasy" stuck out to her as relevant to the state of Argentina at the time.

Disappearance Lewin was abducted by the junta at age 19. She was held in a clandestine detention center. After a year, she was brought to the Navy Mechanical School, a torture site where over 5,000 people were held before their deaths. Several members of the committee abstained from voting, questioning the methodology by which Lewin was elected for the position. including the anti-disinformation project .

Beginning in 2003, Lewin worked to track down the planes used for death flights by the junta.

Writing career Lewin is the author of several books. Her first publication, , was written in 2001, co-authored with Munu Actis, Elisa Tokar, Cristina Aldini and Liliana Gardella, four other survivors of ESMA. Five cases from her 2010 radio fiction show were published in a book of the same name in 2011, which was co-authored with Marcelo Camaño. Alongside , she wrote in 2014, a work on the sexual abuse faced by those in concentration camps under the military dictatorship; it was republished in 2020 with a prologue by Rita Laura Segato.

Lewin's book with Horacio Lutzky , published in 2015, follows a Federal Police intelligence agent over 15 years as he infiltrates the Jewish community. It was adapted into a television series for Amazon Prime Video as Yosi, the Regretful Spy in 2022.