Selected records from the Ministry of Foreign Relations and Culture of Chile
Extent and Medium
4,668 digital images, TIFF
Creator(s)
- Chile. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
Archival History
Archivo Nacional de la Administración (Chile)
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.
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.
Scope and Content
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.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archivo Nacional de la Administración (Chile)
Subjects
- Executive departments.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Jewish refugees--Chile--History--20th century.
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe--History.
- Chile.
- Chile--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Cables.
- Document
- Reports.
- Passports.