MARSHALL MEYER.

A life, a mission.

Marshall T. Meyer was born in the United States of America in 1930. He arrived in Buenos Aires in 1959, together with his wife Naomi Meyer, after graduating as a Rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

In the 1970s, Meyer was actively involved in the defense of Human Rights and, in the midst of the military dictatorships, took advantage of the environments in which he was involved as a space to disseminate, discuss and denounce state crimes. Marshall T. Meyer visited political prisoners in jail and helped the politically persecuted leave the country. With the return of democracy, he became a member of the National Commission on the Disappearance of People (Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas, CONADEP).

He was a founding member of the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary. It was a meeting point for the relatives of victims to file collective habeas corpus writs during the dictatorship. There, Marshall saw, listened to and expressed his solidarity with the families of the disappeared detainees and political prisoners, providing any assistance that was available to him. The documents we are currently presenting are a testimony of Marshall Meyer´s activity in the defense of Human Rights.

The collection "Marshall Meyer. Latin American Rabbinical Seminary", brings together over 300 documents which are mostly from 1977-1984, the period when Meyer headed the Latin American Rabbinical Seminar and conducted an intense human rights defense activity. Letters, notes, court filings, a selection of press articles are some of the documents which serve as testimony of his mission and his fight.

Memoria Abierta presents these documents supplementing Duke University´s digital collection "Marshall T. Meyer (1902-2004)" ( http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/meyermarshall/)

Access to the collection: http://www.memoriaabierta.org.ar/bases/opac/fondos/meyer/index.html

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