Michael Alpert notes that "this public relations effort of the Spanish regime was remarkably effective, even in the Jewish world itself". For example, the American rabbi Chaim Lipschitz who authored a study entitled Franco, Spain, the Jews and the Holocaust (1984) was "invited to Spain and provided with an official driver, hotel, and a suitable set of translated documents" although he remained relatively critical of Spanish policy. Spanish official archives were not made widely available to researchers until the aftermath of the Spanish transition to democracy in 1975. Spain became a member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2008.
