ABSTRACT
As a historian Dinur placed great importance on the development of infrastructure for the Holocaust research he meant to advance. It was necessary to build infrastructure for the instruction and training of future researchers and to attend to the organization of research. But first of all the raw material of historical research had to be collected, arranged, and presented to historians: documents, testimonies, and other sources. Creating a well-organized, rich and orderly archive at the service of researchers was of vital importance for Dinur. For this purpose he chose the General Archives of Jewish History of the Israeli Historical Society (of which he was one the founders).
