Location of the interview: Sweden - Stockholm - The interviewee's house
Provenance of the intervieew: Peru - Huancayo.
Name of the interviewer: Hernández Nova, Leslie Nancy

Emperatiz is a political refugee living in Sweden and a militant follower of the "Juventud" of the "Izquierda Unida", which is part of the Peruvian Communist Party. She and her daughter moved to Timrå, Sweden, in 1992. The production of the witness correspondes as following: 1 drawing A4 of the place in which the Shining Path kill his brother; 54 Photographs of the personal archive, 1 file audio, 5 videos.

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The interviews with Emperatriz were used in a documentary entitled "Non posso dire di essere peruviana, ma un miscuglio" (Italy, 32', 2017, Giulia Cinisselli and Leslie Hernández, Nova https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Nc2dK7ljg) in a 13 minute clip. The video makes use of the first interview with Emperatriz held on August 3rd, 2016 and the group interview with her family held on August 6th, 2016, both of which were conducted by Leslie Nancy Hernández Nova in the family's home in Slona, Stockholm. Photographs from Emperatriz's private archives were selected and included in the BABE project exhibition at the Fondazione Merz in Turin entitled 'Corpi attraverso i confini: memorie dell'europa di oggi' and the exhibition at the State Archives of Florence entitled 'Immagine Memoria: Archive of a Europe under construction'. This includes a published obituary for her close friend Verónica, the letter from Sendero Luminoso to her husband (see the audio recording of the letter as read by Girli Girana Gaviria Guevara, BABE-011), a photograph taken during of the funeral of Emperatriz's friend who was murdered by the "senderistas", a photograph of Emperatriz and Tania performing a traditional dance, a newspaper clipping regarding the attack on the family house, the first photograph of Emperatriz and his daughter taken in Stockholm, an interview with Emperatriz regarding economic problems in families and violence published in an unknown newspaper, a drawing by Emperatriz depicting his place of origin and the place where his brother was murdered by Sendero Luminoso in 1989 (the drawing is on an A4 sheet with coloured pencils). See also the group interview with her (gender issues) daughter and husband (BABE-096). Emperatriz introduced Maria to Leslie Hernández Nova, who later interviewed her (BABE-098).