Letters and other private documents: the value granted

Authors

  • Judith Riquelme Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana Chile

Abstract

The article raises about the importance of intimate documentation as sources of research. It analyzes unpublished correspondence preserved under the initiative of private archives and the need to make known situations of lives affected by contexts of local or universal violence. It maintains the relevance of access, preservation and dissemination, as well as the role of the Archives. It seeks to arouse the multidisciplinary interest in relation to this type of sources.

Keywords:

Correspondence, letters, photographs, postcards, private documents, archives, Holocaust, dictatorship, Chile.