This essay tackles the questions around how new generations take ownership of the recent past, in a context where the extreme right-wing gains strength on a global level. In particular, it focuses on the situation in Argentina, a country that has developed many policies around the authoritarian past during the past 40 years of uninterrupted democracy – with the stated goal of guaranteeing “Nunca Más” (“Never Again”). What this paper poses is that the institutionalization of memorial policies crystalized in school curricula and commemorative dates has had limitations in how it problematized the recent past, with many ellipses and silences, that have been perceived by the extreme right-wing as “indoctrination”. As a counterpoint, the experience of the Programa “Jóvenes y memoria”, where new generations take the stage and insert themselves in the disputes over memory, is analyzed.