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IWO Foundation (Yivo Institute for Jewish Research) in Buenos Aires is a not for profit organization devoted to education preservation, and research of the Jewish heritage. IWO library and archives hold more than 60.000 volumes archives and artifacts related to the history of East European Jewry, the immigration to Latin America, the Holocaust, Jewish literature and languages, Jewish thought and religion, Israel and the middle east conflict, and more. Each year, more than 1.000 students, teachers, scholars, writers, filmmakers, artists, and family history researchers visit our library and archives. IWO also offers a variety of conferences, cultural programs, lectures, exhibitions, and courses.

Yiṿo in Argenṭine

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 Yiṿo in Argenṭine (Fundación IWO). Mixed provenance collection of documentation donated to Fundacion IWO in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Holocaust survivors. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in Sept. 2017.