Bringing the “Linz-collection” to Yad Vashem in Israel

The JHD operated until 1954. The gradual closure of the DP camps and the emigration of thevast majority of the surviving Jews rendered the organization redundant. After the closure ofthe JHD, Wiesenthal sold most of the tens of thousands of pages of documentation to thenascent Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Authority, Yad Vashem.

He kept only a few Nazi criminal files and documents that were important to him personally. These included the dossier on Adolf Eichmann.