Vladimir Herzog Archive Launches Digitally with 1,700 Items on June 26

Over 1,700 items from the Vladimir Herzog Archive will become accessible through a digital platform starting June 26. The launch coincides with the 83rd anniversary of the journalist's birth and aims to broaden public understanding of his life beyond his 1975 assassination by agents of Brazil's military dictatorship. The collection includes photographs, correspondence, and personal documents preserved by his family for over four decades, alongside materials gathered from more than 20 public and private archives. A live event on June 26 will feature Rogério Sottili, Ivo Herzog, Luis Ludmer, and Bianca Santana. The project, supported by Itaú Cultural, took two years to build, following archival rigor with bibliographic descriptors and contextual data. Rogério Sottili states the launch is a symbolic gesture against historical revisionism and the denial of the dictatorship's horrors, part of a larger institutional project promoting memory, truth, and justice. The archive contains over a thousand photographs, 78 articles written or edited by Herzog, 131 issues of Revista Visão where he was editor, more than 60 letters, and an unpublished series with the Museu da Pessoa featuring 12 testimonies from family and friends, including his widow Clarice Herzog, filmmaker João Batista de Andrade, and architect Ruy Ohtake.