Buenos Aires (AFP)

With the aim of alerting the new generations and nurturing the memory of the six million Jews exterminated by the Nazis during the Second World War, the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires reopened on Sunday after two years of works.

The South American country is home to the second largest Jewish community on the American continent, behind that of the United States.

In this old building of 3,000 square meters located in the Barrio Norte of the capital, the visitor enters a paved path that leads to a reproduction of the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The exhibition traces the "almost absurd prohibitions aimed at (at the time) the Jews to force them to emigrate from Germany", to the "final solution", ie the systematic elimination of Jews with the establishment of extermination camps, explains the historian Bruno Garbari, in charge of the contents of the museum.

In total, some six million Jews are dead. Homosexuals, Gypsies and political prisoners also perish in camps.

"We can not explain the Holocaust, without understanding how Hitler came to power," adds the expert.

Touch screens, interactive tables, photos and films highlight the testimonies of camp survivors.

Focusing on the survivors who crossed the Atlantic to rebuild their lives in Argentina, the exhibition also highlights the contradictions of the South American country.

Thousands of Nazis settled in Argentina after the Second World War, with the blessing of the then president, General Juan Peron, in power from 1946 to 1955. The country also welcomed Jews fleeing persecution and persecution. extermination camps.

Part of the museum is devoted to the kidnapping of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann on May 11, 1960, in Buenos Aires by the Mossad. He will be secretly transferred to Israel ten days later.

A set of 83 Nazi objects discovered by a collector in 2017 in Buenos Aires and donated to the Holocaust Museum is finally not part of the permanent collection at the moment, contrary to what was announced.

"The objects that will be exhibited have not yet been chosen, they are being investigated, and once we have a satisfactory result, which tells us that they are worthwhile (to be exposed), we will install them, "said museum director Jonathan Karszenbaum.

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