Consejo Nacional de Educación

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2013.64 | RG Number: RG-72.020M

Overview

Description: Contains administrative matters concerning German schools as well as Polish, Russian, Slovak, and Jewish schools in Buenos Aires and other provinces in Argentina. Investigation of teachers and school directors accused of pro-Nazi or Communist sentiments. Lists of teachers barred from teaching by the Anti-Argentine Activities Committee. Rehabilitation of teachers in 1944. Curriculum and text book suggestions and administrative matters concerning the German Kulturrat, the German Teachers Association and the German School Association in Argentina. Reports about Nazi propaganda taught in German schools in Argentina. Closing of schools and firing of teachers due to the spreading of Nazi ideology. Investigation of Jewish schools and firing of Jewish teachers. Reports about hostilities between German and Jewish communities and descriptions of antisemitic incidents.
Alternate Title: National Board of Education
Date: inclusive: 1934-1945
Collection Creator: Consejo Nacional de Educacio?n (Argentina)
Reference: Schnorbach, Hermann, Für Ein "anderes Deutschland": Die Pestalozzischule In Buenos Aires, 1934-1958. 1. Aufl. Frankfurt am Main: Dipa-Verlag, 1995.

Commission of Enquiry Into the Activities of Nazism In Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1997-1999. [Buenos Aires]: CEANA, 1999.

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Copyright Holder: Archivo General de la Nación (Argentina)

Topical Term: Schools, German--Argentina--Buenos Aires. Teachers--Argentina--Political activity--History--20th century--Registers. National socialism--Argentina--History. Germans--Argentina--History--20th century. Propaganda, German--Argentina--History--20th century. Germans--Political activity--Argentina--History--20th century. Jewish refugees--Argentina. Jewish committees (ushmm)
Geographic Name: Argentina--Politics and government--1910-1943. Argentina--Emigration and immigration. Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Ethnic relations--History--20th century. Argentina

Holder of Originals: Archivo General de la Nación (Argentina)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Archivo General de la Nación Argentina (National Archives of Argentina). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2013.