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This article reviews the concept of documentary heritage linked to the Jewish Community of Chile. Presents the fundamentals that drive the creation allowed Chilean Archive Judaism (AJCH), whose mission is to restore, conserve and preserve the documents generated by the community. The recovery plan is limited to community heritage other actions taken by the Center for Jewish Studies seeking to enable new multidisciplinary studies information objects generated by this group of immigrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article places the issue of forgiveness, and of self-forgiveness specifically, in a particular historical environment, such as Germany from the second postwar period to the present. Its purpose is to explore the many obstacles for genuine self-forgiveness in an extreme case of collective trauma, in which internal and external circumstances are sufficiently adverse to prevent a balanced management of the relationship between guilt and justice and it was chosen to delete the collective memory for a long time. We analyze the consequences that this decision had, especially in the context of an official historical truth. Finally, we draw some lessons that might bring some interest to the Chile's recovery process of justice and historical memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work examines the relationship between forgiveness, memory and forgetfulness; it analyzes the use and possible abuse of the two last ones and the connection that exists between promise and forgiveness. The thought of Paul Ricoeur and Hannah Arendt in respect to these matters contributes the criterions used for those revision and analysis. The exposition ends with a brief comparative study of the statements of both authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]