Academics on the advisory board of the Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies in Vienna have pulled out of a research project after the Jewish Community in Vienna refused to open all of its archives, the Associated Press reported. The project involves 8,000 files of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.

The scholars have argued they cannot properly carry out their work because of lack of information. The Vienna Jewish Community agreed only to open files from the years 1919 to 1970 with restrictions on some of them.