The Secretary of Human Rights of the Province, Emilio Jatón, participated this Monday in the opening of a Conference of the Provincial Memory Archive of Santa Fe, “Open archive: Santa Fe police archives.”
In the Memory Space Ex Comisaría Cuarta (Zavalla and Tucumán) in the city of Santa Fe, Jatón pointed out: “Many times it seems that the archives are dead and the archives, if one knows how to read them, talk about decisions, they talk about issues that have happened in another era, but that are captured on paper or in archives.”
Then, he highlighted that in the Former Fourth Police Station “there is the Provincial Memory Archive (Apmsf), from which many of the trials against humanity that are carried out, the investigation, are born from this place. That is why it is very important that during International Archives Month we are gathered here to reflect and exchange experiences, which is why archivists from a large part of the province have come.”
For her part, the Apmsf coordinator, María José Vanni, indicated that the archive “is one of the only ones in the country that has this amount of police, prison and intelligence archives” and that “colleagues participate in this open archive meeting.” of memory spaces in Entre Ríos, Chaco, Rosario, archivists from many institutions in the province, but also personnel from the provincial police.”
Vanni stressed that “the joint work between the archives of the past and the archives that are being produced today is very valuable, that is what we are working for, for access to information and for raising awareness among researchers.”
Memory Archive
The Provincial Memory Archive of Santa Fe (Apmsf), dependent on the Provincial Directorate of Democratic Memory of the Secretariat of Human Rights, was created within the scope of the Secretariat of State for Human Rights in October 2006, by Decree No. 2775. In March 2016, the Provincial Legislature approved Law No. 13,528, which established the Apmsf within the scope of the Secretariat of Human Rights.
From the progressive incorporation of documentary funds and collections to the Apmsf, preventive conservation, identification, classification, ordering and description tasks began. At the same time, documentary evidence began to be provided in trials for crimes against humanity processed in different federal courts in the Province and also in other jurisdictions. Simultaneously, queries from survivors and relatives of victims of State Terrorism began to be answered; also from researchers and students from various study houses.
The documents in relation to the aforementioned issues are found in the documentary collections of the Information Directorate – Intelligence Center, Penitentiary and Police Service of the Province of Santa Fe, especially those recovered in November 2020.
Presents
The Provincial Director of Democratic Memory, Ramón Verón, participated in the activities; members of police units that guard Santa Fe documents, researchers from regional universities UNL, UNR, UCSF, Uader, UNER, and UNC; professionals with degrees related to Recent History, Archival Science, Library Science, Museology, Research Methodology and Social Communication.
