<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<!-- saved from url=(0055)http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/especial/placairigoy.htm -->
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1498" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#d3d3ab>
<DIV align=center>
<P><A href="http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/"><IMG height=97
src="cid:120511980-220055318331778137@Dan" width=113 border=0></A></P>
<TABLE width="75%"
border=1 cellPadding=20 borderColor=#d3d3ab bgColor=#FFFFFF><TBODY>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top height=400> <P align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We
want to inform you about the story of former Argentine diplomat in
Berlin, Luis H. Irigoyen. According to historian Haim Avni in his
book "Argentina and the Jews", Irigoyen was responsible
of the murder of one hundred Argentine Jews, in spite of continuous
efforts by high ranking Nazi hierarchs to avoid their extermination.
This sad chapter of the Argentine history is also present in the book
"The Real Odessa", by renowned Argentine researcher Uki
Goñi. </font></P>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The case of Irigoyen
leads to a plaque placed inside the Argentine Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (MFA) that pays tribute to diplomats that "showed solidarity
towards people persecuted by the Nazis" during the Shoah. Irigoyen
is among the people listed in that plaque. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Help us claim
for the removal of the plaque!</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you
agree, please send us your words of support to: <a href="mailto:irwf@irwf.org.ar%20">irwf@irwf.org.ar
</a></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cordially,</font></p>
<P align=center><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size=2><IMG height=52 src="cid:227331981-220055318331778138@Dan"
width=142><BR>
Father Horacio Moreno<BR>
President</FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><u>MORE
INFORMATION ABOUT THE PLAQUE</u></strong></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Argentine
Diplomacy and the Holocaust:<br>
<a href="http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/education/diplomacy/argentina/">http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/education/diplomacy/argentina/</a></strong></font></p>
<p><strong><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Homage
to a "hero" who abandonded 100 Jews to their fate:<br>
<a href="http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/press/2332.htm">http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/press/2332.htm</a></font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">On nazis
and bronze plaques:<br>
<a href="http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/press/2331.htm">http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/press/2331.htm</a></font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sixty
years after WWII, Argentines want answers about ministry's role:<br>
<a href="http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/press/2336.htm"> http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/press/2336.htm</a></font></strong></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
</DIV>
<TABLE width="65%" border=1 align=center cellPadding=30 bordercolor="#d3d3ab" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD height=828 vAlign=top bordercolor="#d3d3ab"> <P align="right"><font color="#333399" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"La
Voz del Interior", Córdoba. April 21 2005<br>
Letters to the editor</font></P>
<p align="center"><font color="#333399" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Moved
abroad, indifferent at home</strong></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#333399" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The
Argentine media have reported that President Néstor Kirchner
and his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner were moved to tears
during a recent visit to Dachau concentration camp in Germany. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#333399" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"In
1933, the world remained silent," said the Argentine president
in reference to Hitler's rise to power and to the atrocities commited
by the Nazis. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#333399" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We
are sorry to say that this silence resembles the silence of Kirchner's
own administration regarding a plaque that pays tribute to 12 Argentine
diplomats who are alleged to "have shown solidarity with the victims
of the Nazis", erected inside the Argentine Foreign Ministry in
2001. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#333399" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There
would be no reason to object this homage paid to members of Argentina's
diplomatic corps - there are plenty of reasons why many men and women
of the Argentine foreign service should receive recognition- were it
not for the fact that none of the diplomats on the plaque showed any
real solidarity with the victims of the Nazis. They simply carried out
their duty to assist Argentine citizens in Europe during the War. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#333399" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Moreover,
one of the diplomats honored is Luis H. Irigoyen, Secretary of the Argentine
Embassy in Berlin during the war, responsible for the death of 100 Argentine
Jews in the gas chambers, in spite of the fact that the Nazi authorities
wanted to hand these citizens over to the Argentine Embassy for repatriation
to Argentina.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#333399" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This
fact is well documented in books written by two experts on the subject,
Professor Haim Avni, of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Argentine
writer Uki Goñi.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#333399" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Despite
all attempts by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation to have
this plaque removed, including appeals made to Foreign Minister Rafael
Bielsa and other authorities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and
letters to President Kirchner and to Senator Cristina Fernández
de Kichner, which were never answered, the plaque remains in place,
a shameful example of a two-faced nation, which is moved abroad by the
same behaviour it feels indifferent to at home.</font></p>
<P><STRONG><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
color=#333399 size=2>José Ignacio García Hamilton <br>
Raúl Otero<br>
Nicholas Tozer<br>
Fundación Internacional Raoul Wallenberg<br>
</FONT></STRONG><a href="http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/press/2286.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/press/2286.htm</font></a><br>
</P>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
</BODY></HTML>