Argentina Delivers Thousands Of Documents To U.S. Holocaust Museum
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
July 30, 2017 By JTA
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — The Argentine Foreign Ministry delivered to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington a series of documents about World War II, some of them related to Nazi war criminals.
The digital copies of the documents delivered are mainly letters, telegrams, newspaper articles, notes and reports, totaling almost 40,000 documents. An agreement for this transfer was signed on Friday in Buenos Aires between Argentina´s Secretary of International Cooperation Ernesto Gaspari and USHMM representative Samanta Casareto.
The 38,779 documents were produced by Argentina’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1939 and 1950.
Among the documents are the communications between Argentina and countries involved in the war, as well as information sent by the Argentinean embassy in Germany. Some documents also record a meeting of chancellors in 1944.
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Argentina, you see, has long had the region's largest Jewish community - a legacy of the large wave of European immigration they had between around 1880 and 1930 (second only to the U.S.).
This is why their ethnic composition is similar to the US's: around 2/3 white (mainly from Southern Europe); but with a large Mestizo, rather than Black, minority.
And at a time when even FDR shut the door to Jewish refugees in the 1940s for fear of angering the Dixiecrats, Argentina welcomed thousands. The Jewish community in Buenos Aires in particular is still very influential in business, politics, science, and the arts.
Jewish immigrants arriving in Buenos Aires in the 1930s - a few of the roughly 300,000 Jews (and close to 6 million Europeans) to emigrate to Argentina between 1860 and 1960.
