The reconstruction of everyday life for political prisoners, starting with the cases of violations of Human Rights in Chile and Uruguay, implies resorting to memory -with its plurality, diversity and hesitations- as the major source of understanding that contributes to recreating and reassigning the images evoked. Acknowledging the reality and the memory that reconstruct them as social constructs, including the realizations of common sense, the text warns against the processes of transfer and deformations present in the testimonies, illustrating this phenomenon the presence of the Holocaust imaginary in the testimonies of political prisoners in the Southern Cone of Latin America.