Moskovits Archives Archivo Moskovits
Extent and Medium
20,317 digital images, TIFF
Archival History
Yiṿo in Argenṭine
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.
Source of acquisition is the Yiṿo in Argenṭine (Fundación IWO). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in Feb. 2018.
Scope and Content
Various organizational records related to activities of the legal office of Mr. José Moskovits, a Holocaust survivor and attorney in Buenos Aires. This includes correspondence, project files, press releases, several issues of the German newspaper: Völkischer Beobachter, Berlin (1933), minutes, reports, photographs, printed material, and other documents. Documents and clippings relate to Nazi war criminals who were believed to have or actually had relocated to Argentina after World War II; Project folders relate to memorial events in Argentina and other activities of Holocaust survivors. Consists also of dissertations and reports presented by Jose Moskovits, materials from international conferences, memorandums on special cases, speeches at memorials, publications used as background for reports, includes 200 titles from 1956-1973. There is a also a small collection containing personal documents, manuscripts, photographs, and correspondence related to Jose and Helena Moskovits life and work. Documents include a transcription of an interview and other materials used for the preparation of the book and website "Proyecto Moskovits."
System of Arrangement
Arranged in two series: 1. Various office subject files arranged chronologically, 1933-1973; 2. Small collection of personal papers, 1926-2000.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Yiṿo in Argenṭine
People
- Moskovits, Helena.
- Moskovits, José, 1926-2014.
Subjects
- Emigration and immigration--Argentina.
- Argentina--Politics and government--20th century.
- Nazis--Argentina.
- Jewish organizations--Argentina--History--20th century.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Argentina--20th century.
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)
- War criminals--Argentina.
- Germany--Politics and government--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe.
Genre
- Dissertations.
- Document
- Press releases.
- Reports.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Minutes.
- Speeches, addresses, etc.
- Memorandums.
- Photographs.