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

Identifier
irn565043
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2017.366.1
  • RG-80.001
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Spanish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

4,668 digital images, TIFF

Creator(s)

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

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.