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q Museo del
Holocausto
Montevideo 919. City Map 2 C4.
Tel (011) 4811-3588. @ 59.
Open 11am–7pm Mon–Thu,
11am–4pm Fri. Closed Sat & Sun.
& 8 Spanish only; book ahead.
∑ museodelholocausto.org.ar
Set up by the local Fundación
Memoria del Holocausto in
1999, the Museo del Holocausto
is dedicated to preserving the
memory of people who died
in the Holocaust. It traces the
background of the Holocaust
from prewar Jewish life in Europe
and the rise of Nazi power, to the
Resistance, the Final Solution,
and the survi vors’ search for a
Museo Municipal de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernández Blanco home in the aftermath. Along
with the accounts of these tragic
current location in the Palacio hundreds more on March 17, events unfolding in Europe, the
Noel, merging with the Museo 1992 (see p31). A nearby church exhi bition also explores the diffi-
Colonial that was already based and school were also cult lives of Jewish
in the Palacio. destroyed in the families in Argentina,
The museum also acquired tragic inci dent. A and the country’s
items from a third municipal memorial plaza has social and political
museum to add to its exhibits. been set up near the responses to them.
The original collection has been site – it comprises The exhi bition
expanded over the years with a seven benches and includes a section
variety of purchases and dona tions, 22 trees planted in on the Nazi war
with the most significant by Celina rows of two, each crimi nals who
González Garaño, who donated standing for the went into hiding
around 750 items in 1963. The memory of the vic- in Argentina. The
most outstanding items in tims of the blast. Eichmann exhibit, Museo explanatory texts are
the museum include more than Informative plaques del Holocausto in Spanish but the
100 beautiful antique dolls. explain the details of exhibition, including
The vast collection of the horri fic event and list strong visual elements, allows
colonial-era silverware is the names of the victims in the visitor to follow the stories
thought to be the most both Hebrew and Spanish. and incidents through an
significant of its kind in the A scarred and ruined embassy abundant collec tion of photo-
world. There is also Luso- wall has been left as it was graphs and an array of historical
Brazilian furni ture, porcelain, after the explo sion and it texts, maps, and other related
pretty cos tumes, decor ative stands in stark contrast to the objects. The museum also has
arts, and elegant tapestries. ornate museums around it. a clear and strong educational
The mansion itself is a joy to At night, the embassy wall is agenda on the topics of racism,
explore, especially the tranquil beautifully lit up. anti-Semitism, and xenophobia.
Andalusian-style patio which is
decorated with ivy and shaded
by centenarian trees.
0 Plaza Embajada
de Israel
Calle Arroyo, corner Suipacha. City
Map 3 D3.  Retiro. @ 59.
Not much remains on the site
of Plaza Embajada de Israel
after a truck, driven by a suicide
bomber, smashed into the
Israeli Embassy. The blast killed
29 people and wounded Photographs of Jewish victims of the Holocaust, Museo del Holocausto

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