Secret and confidential records Secretos y Reservados

Identifier
irn42973
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.53
  • RG-72.008M
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1955
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Spanish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

100,437 digital images, JPEG

164 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Creator(s)

Archival History

Archivo General de la Nación (Argentina)

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Archivo General de la Nación (Archives of the National Archives of Argentina). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from National Archives of Argentina via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 2011.

Scope and Content

This collection contains confidential reports from various Argentinean government agencies and political offices to the Argentine Ministry of the Interior, including the Ministry of Foreign Relations, various provincial Governor's offices, the national police, the Ministry of War, the Postal and Telegraph Service, the Ministry of Agriculture, and others. Also includes records pertaining to Jewish immigration (both legal and illegal) to Argentina and other Latin American countries, the Jewish colonization movement, Nazi activities in Patagonia and other parts of Argentina, and communications received from Argentine consulates in Europe pertaining to Jewish applications for emigration. In addition, the collection contains reports on German and Japanese immigrants in Argentina and other Latin American countries including reports on arrest and deportations of German and Japanese nationals, investigations of Jewish union workers and leftist politicians, arrests of individuals for anti-Argentine activities, communications to and from the German Embassy in Buenos Aires, and reports on Argentina's relationship with various European countries during World War II.

System of Arrangement

Original records are arranged by carton (not by individual file) and relevant documents are disbursed throughout the holdings, this collection was reproduced following the full carton contents. The contents of cartons were microfilmed in their entirety as long as they contained relevant pages. Those cartons without any relevant documents were not microfilmed.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Archivo General de la Nación (Argentina)

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.