Uki Goni collection : The Real Odessa research material

Identifier
irn602011
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

Uki Goňi, historian and author in Argentina collected archival materials from various archives worldwide for his research book: The real Odessa: smuggling the Nazis to Perón's Argentina. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division purchased this collection from Uki Goňi in 2010.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in May 2012.

Scope and Content

Contains the research materials collected by Uki Goňi, author of "The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron’s Argentina." In course of his research for this book, Mr. Goňi collected relevant documents over a period of 20 years in various archives worldwide, including in Argentina, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Uki Goňi shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi escape operation was based at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, harboring such war criminals as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele. Goni uncovers an elaborate network that relied on the complicity of the Vatican, the Argentine Catholic Church, and the Swiss authorities.

Genre

  • Collection
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