Academics withdraw support for Vienna Wiesenthal Institute

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Renowned academics withdraw support for Vienna Wiesenthal Institute
By: Associated Press on: 21.11.2009

By VERONIKA OLEKSYN
November 17, 2009

VIENNA - A dispute over access to an archive involving Vienna's Jewish community has prompted a group of academics to withdraw support for an Austrian Holocaust studies center, saying independent research is no longer possible, according to a letter obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies began provisional operations in January. Its purpose is to give researchers access to roughly 8,000 files of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and to parts of a vast archive belonging to Jewish Community Vienna, which represents the city's Jewish Community.

But former officials at the institute say the Jewish Community Vienna is limiting access to the archive.

Earlier this month, the officials — including Anton Pelinka, the former chairman of the executive committee, and business manager Ingo Zechner — announced they were quitting, saying scholars would not be able to do independent research due to the archive restrictions.

In a copy of the letter obtained by the AP, 12 of the institute's 15-member international academic advisory board said they, too, were dropping out.

"The International Advisory Board of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute has noted with increasing concern that the conditions under which the institute could carry out its work with the necessary degree of scholarly independence can no longer be met," the academics wrote in the letter, which was dated Monday.

"On the basis of the information available to us, and in view of the resignations ... we conclude that the board no longer serves a useful purpose."

The letter was co-signed by, among others, Yehuda Bauer, professor of Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, David Bankier, head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem and Tom Segev, an Israeli historian, journalist and Wiesenthal biographer.

http://www.startribune.com/world/70301092.html
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Wiesenthal the super master of zioliars
by cosmo on 21.11.2009 [14:51 ]    
Will be interesting to see how and where does he reincarnate next!!!


I guess that they zionists
by chestergimli on 21.11.2009 [16:17 ]    
didn't want the Advisory Board to see these archives because they would have opened a lot of eyes.

http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/211115