Roberto Kozak

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Roberto Kozak (born May 14, 1942 in Argentina , † September 2015 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine diplomat .

Life

Roberto Kozak was born in a village in northeast Argentina. His father immigrated from Ukraine in the 1890s ; his mother, who also had Ukrainian roots, came from Buenos Aires. As one of twelve children, Kozak was still young when the family moved to a poor working-class area on the outskirts of the capital. When he was nine, he started working in a bookstore after finishing school. When he finished school, he eventually enrolled in civil engineering at the University of Buenos Aires and after graduating worked in various technical professions. When he saw the advertisement for a position in the Argentine office of the non-governmental organization ICEM (today: International Organization for Migration ) in 1968 , he applied. After working for the ICEM in Argentina and training in Germany , England and Switzerland , he agreed to a transfer to Chile . Kozak has during the Pinochet - dictatorship brought out of the country in Chile from 25,000 to 35,000 political prisoners. Among them was the current Chilean President Michelle Bachelet . Kozak is considered a forgotten hero and is referred to as the Oskar Schindler of Latin America. Because of his merits, he was awarded the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins in 1992 and Chilean citizenship in 2015 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ewen MacAskill, Jonathan Franklin: Man in the Shadow , Friday, Dossier, No. 7, February 16, 2017
  2. ^ Latin America's Schindler: a forgotten hero of the 20th century . In: The Guardian . December 14, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed February 20, 2017]).
  3. ^ My Father Saved 30,000 People in Chile, Outlook - BBC World Service. Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Ewen MacAskill, Jonathan Franklin: Man in the Shadow , Friday, Dossier, No. 7, February 16, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kozak, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Argentina
DATE OF DEATH September 2015
Place of death Buenos Aires