{"id":76187,"date":"2022-03-21T09:21:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/argentinaxp.com\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=76187"},"modified":"2022-03-21T09:21:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:21:56","slug":"raquel-liberman-historia-de-una-mujer-que-fue-simbolo-de-la-lucha-contra-la-trata","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/blog.argxp.com\/en\/blog\/raquel-liberman-historia-de-una-mujer-que-fue-simbolo-de-la-lucha-contra-la-trata\/","title":{"rendered":"Raquel Liberman: Story of a woman who was a symbol of the fight against trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rachel Liberman<\/strong> she died in 1935. Thyroid cancer had consumed her. He no longer spoke. The agony was short but very painful. Before she fell ill, her appearance was not good either. He was 35 years old, but appeared to be in his fifties. He was a worn-out, broken person. With a past that did not abandon her, with perpetual pain going through her. However, she was a quiet woman. He had fought, he had not given up despite the adverse circumstances and he had won. Against all odds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"76189\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.argxp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pasaporte-raquel-liberman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76189\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"76191\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.argxp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/raquel-liberman-prostituta-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76191\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"76190\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.argxp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/tumba-raquel-liberman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76190\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"76192\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.argxp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/zwi-migdal-800x533.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76192\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ruchla Laja Liberman<\/strong> He was born on July 10, 1900 in Berdichev, present-day Ukraine. As a child, she emigrated with her parents to Warsaw, where she spent more than two thirds of her short life. In 1919 she married Iaacov Ferber and the following year they had their first son, Joshu\u00e9. In 1921, when she was pregnant with her second child, her husband immigrated to Argentina in search of work. But his final years (and the name he adopted during them) are what gave him immortality. Her destiny was to go unnoticed, to be subjected, one more victim, like so many thousands of others. But she refused, rebelled. And with unusual courage, he stood up to his exploiters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He inspired -with many historical licences- the character played by Eugenia La China Su\u00e1rez in Argentina, land of love and revenge.<br \/>At the beginning of the last century, life in Poland was very hard. Hunger, needs and pogroms. For the young Jews, any exit seemed tempting, any other destination in the world offered illusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruchla como tantas otras j\u00f3venes polacas jud\u00edas parti\u00f3 hacia Argentina buscando un futuro mejor, escapar a la miseria. Pero su historia no es igual a la de las dem\u00e1s. \u00abLa Polaca\u00bb emigr\u00f3 a la Argentina en 1922 junto a dos peque\u00f1os hijos -Josu\u00e9 de dos a\u00f1os y Mois\u00e9s de meses- para reunirse con su esposo, que la esperaba en la localidad bonaerense de Tapalqu\u00e9. Elke, la cu\u00f1ada de \u00abla Polaca\u00bb, era la madama de un burdel. \u00abNo se sabe si Raquel sab\u00eda de esto antes de llegar al pa\u00eds o si cre\u00eda que iba a trabajar ayudando a su marido, que era sastre, pero nunca hab\u00eda conseguido trabajo y viv\u00eda de su hermana.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after tuberculosis caused the death of Iaacov. Ruchla, who upon arriving in Argentina adopted the name of <strong>Rachel Liberman<\/strong>, (the names of immigrants used to be Spanish) left her children in the care of people from Tapalqu\u00e9 and settled in Buenos Aires ready to earn a living. Prostitution, a mark of the time, was a path almost impossible to avoid.<br \/>Ruffians moved throughout Buenos Aires. They were of all origins. Italians, Spanish, French, Jews. The organization that over time gained the most fame was the Zwi Migdal, of Polish Jewish origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rachel Liberman<\/strong> he worked for several years in the brothels of the Zwi Migdal. Her agreement was better than the rest of the girls. He kept a higher percentage. Thus, he was soon able to buy his freedom in $1,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He continued to practice on his own. She married Jos\u00e9 Korn, considered by many to be an envoy from the Zwi Migdal to make her fall back into their clutches. Nobody manages to free themselves easily from these mafia associations. This man scammed Raquel. He acquired a house in her name with 60,000 pesos from her, in a fraudulent maneuver. Korn installed in that house, how could it be otherwise, a brothel. Raquel was left, once again, with nothing. And his search for justice began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The downfall of that prostitution emporium, which grossed millions a year, began in this little scam that the cracked thirty-year-old decided not to forgive. Ambition and impunity lost the Zwi Migdal. He came across a determined woman tired of harassment, a principled commissioner and a judge who did not fall into the temptation of venality.<br \/><br \/>Raquel had the same fate as the other Polish girls: giving up her youth to ruffians and clients, growing old prematurely, becoming bored with life, and being replaced by a younger one, perhaps barely five years younger than her, but without the obvious wear and tear. , without the rictus of defeat chiseled on his face, without the marks of exploitation furrowing his body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman claimed her money. That money was his independence. The paradox is that she managed to put an end to the organization of ruffians and wanted, with her savings, to become a madam herself. They did not hear their requests. Neither her ex-husband Korn nor the directors of the Zwi Migdal to whom she went. Then she denounced the scam, but no one believed that the Justice would listen to her. Who would pay attention to a Polish prostitute? What kind of investigation couldn&#039;t they stop with some timely bribes?<br \/>Commissioner Julio Alsogaray, a moralist and with a reputation for incorruptibility, listened to Raquel and started to move: he had been behind the organization for years and always ran up against the wall of silence and complicity. With nobility, Alsogaray warned Raquel of the risks of ratifying her denunciations. Raquel chose to move on. It found an echo in an honest judge, magistrate Manuel Rodr\u00edguez Ocampo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the complaint to prosper, Raquel lied about her origin. He wanted to protect his children. He just followed the script of the legend. She said that she traveled seduced by a deceitful marriage proposal and that when she disembarked at the port she was kidnapped and forced into prostitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Como escribi\u00f3 Jorge Luis Borges sobre su Emma Zunz: \u00abLa historia era incre\u00edble, en efecto, pero se impuso a todos, porque sustancialmente era cierta. Verdadero era el tono, verdadero el pudor, verdadero el odio. Verdadero tambi\u00e9n era el ultraje que hab\u00eda padecido; solo eran falsas las circunstancias, la hora y uno o dos nombres propios.\u00bb<br \/><br \/>Raquel, que comenz\u00f3 solo reclamando su deuda, termin\u00f3 denunciando y describiendo el funcionamiento de la red criminal. La Zwi Migdal no pudo resistir el embate. El juez orden\u00f3 108 detenciones. La justicia de aquella \u00e9poca -en las v\u00edsperas de la llamada \u00abd\u00e9cada infame\u00bb-, a trav\u00e9s de la C\u00e1mara de Apelaciones, finalmente dej\u00f3 bajo el r\u00e9gimen de prisi\u00f3n preventiva a solamente tres miembros secundarios de la organizaci\u00f3n. Todos los dem\u00e1s, fueron liberados. Pero las circunstancias hicieron que el emporio de los rufianes fuera demolido.<br \/><br \/>Public opinion was becoming more moralistic (in 1936 prostitution was outlawed: Raquel never got to see him, she died the year before). The impact of the news and sensationalism gave it a great impact and the anti-Semitic factor also played a role. Larger and more established prostitution networks were bypassed because they belonged to other communities.<br \/>With her complaint, Raquel had caused the fall of the Zwi Migdal. It was an unintended consequence. For years the story of the trip, of the fraudulent marriage, of the scam to his credulity, was repeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At one point, Raquel rejoined her children and lived for a few more years in Buenos Aires. It is said that he wanted to get a passport to return to Warsaw, but the trip to Poland never took place. A few months later, on April 7, 1935, she was admitted to the Cosme Argerich hospital where she died.<br \/>Thirteen years had passed since that arrival in Buenos Aires. If that return to Warsaw had not failed, Jos\u00e9 and Mois\u00e9s would have fallen into the clutches of Nazism that was already flying over Germany and especially Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The children only had a few photographs of their mother, in which she was happy.<br \/>This woman who escaped poverty in Poland and traveled with hope to Argentina, in search of an opportunity, found death, pain, abuse and exploitation here. However, in her own way, alone, against an entire era, she was encouraged to fight, to fight for what was hers. That is his legacy, although unfortunately he would not find out about the National Prophylaxis Law of which he was the seed.<br \/><br \/>En 2015, cuando se cumplieron 80 a\u00f1os de su muerte, colocaron una placa en su honor en el cementerio de Avellaneda. Durante la D\u00e9cada Infame se dec\u00eda que ese era \u00abel lugar para enterrar prostitutas y proxenetas\u00bb. No se sabe d\u00f3nde est\u00e1 su tumba porque los libros de las parcelas est\u00e1n en Israel. Pero s\u00ed que est\u00e1 junto a Iacoov.<br \/><br \/>Su historia de valent\u00eda trascendi\u00f3 en el tiempo. Se escribieron otros libros sobre la Polaca. La Subsecretar\u00eda de Derechos Humanos y Pluralismo Cultural de la ciudad de Buenos Aires entrega cada a\u00f1o el \u00ab<strong>Raquel Liberman Award<\/strong>\u00bb a todas las personas y organizaciones no gubernamentales comprometidas con la protecci\u00f3n y\/o promoci\u00f3n de los derechos de las mujeres sobrevivientes de situaciones de violencia\u00bb, seg\u00fan dice la p\u00e1gina oficial de la Ciudad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A project presented before the Buenos Aires Legislature requests that the name of <strong>Rachel Liberman<\/strong> a la estaci\u00f3n Callao de la l\u00ednea D. La autora del proyecto, la legisladora de UCR-Evoluci\u00f3n Patricia Vischi dijo que \u00abnos pareci\u00f3 muy importante que fuera esta estaci\u00f3n del subte D porque la vida de <strong>Rachel Liberman<\/strong> se desarroll\u00f3 en esta zona, donde ella fue victimizada, pero tambi\u00e9n donde, cuando pudo recuperarse, pudo poner un comercio con mucho sacrificio para criar a sus hijos\u00bb.<br \/><br \/>Compilation of texts from: Infobae, La Naci\u00f3n. With the news people, Researcher at the Jos\u00e9 Luis Scarsi National Library. Myrtha Schalom in her book La Polaca demolished all these legends with a formidable research work.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":76188,"template":"","blog-categoria":[43],"class_list":["post-76187","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","blog-categoria-historia-e-historias"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raquel Liberman: Historia de una mujer s\u00edmbolo de la lucha contra la trata<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"La polaca Raquel Liberman: La ca\u00edda de la Zwi Migdal. 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