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Selected records from the Ministry of Foreign Relations and Culture of Chile

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2017.366.1 | RG Number: RG-80.001

Overview

Description: Diplomatic dispatches, cables, and reports sent by the Chilean embassies and consulates in Europe to the Ministry of Foreign Relations and Culture in Santiago, Chile, including records pertaining to Jewish refugees. Consists of 53 original volumes for the period 1933 to 1945 (non-consecutive). Also features 15 digitized passports of individuals immigrating to Chile from Nazi Germany, including Jewish refugees, and one passport of an individual immigrating to Chile after the war.
Date: inclusive: 1933-1946
Credit Line: 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.
Collection Creator: Chile. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores

Physical Details

Language: Spanish
Genre/Form: Cables. Reports. Passports.
Extent: 4,668 digital images : TIFF ; 56.03 .

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing station. There are no additional access restrictions to this material.
Conditions on Use: The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Copyright Holder: Archivo Nacional de la Administración (Chile)

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. Jewish refugees--Chile--History--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe--History. Executive departments.
Geographic Name: Chile--Emigration and immigration. Chile.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Archivo Nacional de la Administración (Chile)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Archivo Nacional de la Administración. The USHMM received this digital collection at no cost from the Fundacion Memoria Viva, Santiago, Chile as part of a Claims Conference-funded project.

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