The Buenos Aires Holocaust Museum investigates Nazi documents found in the Supreme Court

Buenos Aires.- The Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires began this Tuesday to investigate the documents linked to Nazism recently found in the basement of the Supreme Court, after receiving the approval of the high court. The Supreme Court reported that the president of the Court, Horacio Rosatti, and the director of the Holocaust Memory Foundation – known as the Holocaust Museum -, Jonathan Karszenbaum, signed an addendum to a cooperation agreement with the aim of investigating, disseminating and preserving said documentation of high historical value linked to Nazism. The agreement will allow the museum to access the content of twelve identified, classified, and preserved boxes by Court specialists within a process that included cleaning, inventory, and digitization tasks under strict security measures.

According to the Supreme Court, the collaboration will be carried out respecting the legislation on the protection of personal data and guaranteeing the confidentiality of the information, while the researchers pledged to use the material solely for scientific, historical, and sociological purposes.

Following the signing of the agreement, Karszenbaum and the director of the Court Library and Museum, Jessica Susco, held a meeting to define the operational aspects of accessing the documentation, in which a historian from the Holocaust Museum will participate.

The Nazi documents found

The boxes were found by chance during the transfer of files and renovations for the creation of the future museum of the highest court, whose inauguration is scheduled for the first half of 2026. The material was formally reopened on May 9 by Rosatti, in an event attended by authorities from the Holocaust Museum and the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA), and was kept in a specially conditioned room of the Palace of Justice. According to the preliminary inventory, the boxes contain more than 4,600 membership cards of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Labour Front), identified as red booklets, and another 400 from the German Trade Union, as well as nominated files, photographs and propaganda material from the Adolf Hitler regime. According to the Supreme Court, the aim of the investigation is to determine whether the documentation can provide key information about the Holocaust and shed light on little-known aspects, such as the networks and circuits of Nazism outside Europe during World War II.