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Title: Prewar and Wartime Periodicals, 1918-1945

Predominant Dates:1918 -- 1939

ID: RG-17/RG-17

Primary Creator: Illustrated News

Other Creators: Loen, Cornelius, Pravda (The Truth), the main Soviet daily, organ of the Communist Party of the USSR (1946)

Extent: 0.0

Arrangement:

The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by subject/creator, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.

Record group is comprised of eighteen collections and two items, the collections of which are: 1. Collection of wartime Jewish periodicals in Poland; 2. Collection of postwar periodicals; 3. Collection of periodicals in Yiddish; 4. Collection of publications by the Allied powers; 5. Collection of French publications; 6. Collection of Yugoslavian prewar and wartime publications; 7. Collection of Hungarian wartime newspapers; 8. Collection of German wartime newspapers; 9. Collection of Swiss wartime newspapers; 10. Collection of Italian wartime publications; 11. Collection of Los Angeles wartime publications; 12. Prewar Chwila publications; 13. Prewar Dilo publications; 14. Collection of Nazi interwar news publications; 15. Prewar Sygnaly publications; 16. Cornelius Leon collection of wartime periodicals; 17. Herbert Lothar Aron papers; 18. Collection of prewar Austrian publications.

Languages: Polish, Ukrainian, German, Yiddish, French, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, Russian, English

Abstract

Prewar, waratime and postwar periodical publications reflects on the European affairs of the first half of the 20th century. Polish and Ukrainian dailies of the interwar time are most fully represented

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This record group is comprised of periodicals and publications, published in at least ten languages, from before, during, and soon after the Second World War. There are collections of newspapers and magazines in Yiddish; Yugoslavian wartime newspapers; Hungarian wartime newspapers; German-Nazi prewar and wartime newspapers; Italian prewar and wartime newspapers; newspapers published by the French Resistance; American wartime and postwar newspapers; and British wartime and postwar newspapers. A special collection of Los Angeles-based newspapers, published in the 1930s and in the 1940s, reflects international affairs and the Jewish predicament in Europe as the National Socialists attained power in Germany. This collection is exhibited in the museum halls.

The wide spectrum of European and American media in this record group reflects regional and European explications of the interwar and wartime period and the developments in each. Prewar and wartime perspectives of various political forces are well represented within these materials, for example prewar Jewish (published in Polish) and Ukrainian periodicals represent the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Polish-Ukrainian, Ukrainian-Jewish and Polish-Ukrainian relations in Eastern Galicia.

Materials in this record group includes periodicals, which are comprised of narratives, illustrative photo-publications, magazines, and informational bulletins. Prewar Eastern Galician editions contain chronicles of the trials, analytical articles and political agitation, often election-related. Periodicals are partially digitized.

Biographical Note

Illustrated News was a German economic propaganda publication.

Administrative Information

Repository: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Access Restrictions: No restrictions

Use Restrictions:

Copyrighted materials, credits to and references to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust are required

Digital copies might be available upon request

Preferred Citation: RG-17, Prewar, Wartime, and Postwar Periodicals. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Archive.

Processing Information: Materials are primarily described using the local descriptive standards of the LA Museum of the Holocaust.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Folder:

[Folder 1: RG-17.01, Wartime Jewish Periodicals, Poland, 1940 -- 1941],
[Folder 2: RG-17.02, Postwar Periodicals, in Polish and Russian languages, 1945 -- 1946],
[Folder 3: RG-17.03, Periodicals in Yiddish, 1930s --1940s],
[Folder 4: RG-17.04, LIFE magazine collection, 1939 -- 1940, 1939 -- 1940],
[Folder 5: RG-17.05, Periodicals published in France, 1940 -- 1945, 1940 --1945],
[Folder 6: RG-17.06, Yugoslavian Prewar and Wartime Publications, 1938 --1945],
[Folder 7: RG-17.07, Hungarian Wartime Newspapers, ca 1942],
[Folder 8: RG-17.08, Wartime newspapers, German, Hungarian. Chinese offensive, entry of Brazil into the war, August 1942. Photos from Hungarian newspaper(s). One photo is of Istvan Horthy’s (Deputy Regent of Hungary) catafalque, son of Miklos Horthy, Regent of Hungary from March 1, 1920 to October 15, 1944. The second photo depicts an officer meeting., 1941 -- 1943],
[Folder 9: RG-17.09, Swiss Wartime Newspapers, 1939 -- 1945],
[Folder 10: RG-17.10, Italian Wartime Publications, 1939 -- 1945],
[Folder 11: RG-17.11, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Examiner, wartime, 1933 -- 1944],
[Folder 12: RG-17.12, Chwila, 1919 -- 1939],
[Folder 13: RG-17.13, Dilo, 1918 -- 1939, 1918 -- 1939],
[Folder 14: RG-17.14, Nazi Inter-War News, Illustrated News, 1930s],
[Folder 15: RG-17.15, Sygnaly (Signals), 1933-1939, 1933 -- 1939],
[Folder 16: RG-17.16, Short Note About the Oldest Synagogue in Egypt, Ben Ezra, 1973, 1973],
[Folder 17: RG-17.17, Jewish youth of Izbaca before the Holocaust],
[Folder 18: RG-17.18, Cornelius Loen, collection of wartime periodicals, I, 1939 -- 1945],
[Folder 19: RG-17.19, Cornelius Loen, collection of wartime periodicals, II],
[Folder 20: RG-17.20, Herbert Lothar Aron Papers],
[Folder 21: RG-17.21, Prewar Austria periodicals, 1931--1946],
[Folder 22: RG-17.22, Tagespot, Austrian newspaper, reflection of Anschluss, 12 March 1938, 12 March 1938],
[All]

Folder 19: RG-17.19, Cornelius Loen, collection of wartime periodicals, II

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-17.19.01, Fall of Brest, 1944

Four pictures of soldiers and destoyed buildings during the Battle for Brest, 1944. The text is in German.

Subject/Index Terms:: Battle for Brest, France, 1944; Brest (France); German Soldiers; German-occupied France; Soldiers, Soviet Red Army; Germany (1939--1945); German, language; German newspaper; Periodicals, German; Newspaper Article; newspaper clippings; Wartime Publication, Second World War; Photographs; wartime photographs

Creators:: Wartime German-language newspaper (1939 -- 1945); German newspapers (1939 -- 1945); Axis Alliance Wartime Periodical (1939--1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-17.19.02, Hungarian newspaper depicts German soldiers after invasion of Soviet Union, 1941

Two photographs from a Hungarian newspaper depicting German soldiers after the invasion of the Soviet Union.

Subject/Index Terms:: German invasion of the USSR, 22 June 1941

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-17.19.03, German troops move through Minsk and Moscow, 1941

Some German newspaper clippings, including an arial photograph of Minsk, regarding German troops moving through Minsk and Moscow, July, 1941.

Subject/Index Terms:: Eastern Front, German military campaign

Creators:: NSDAP, National Socialist German Workers' Party (1933 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-17.19.04, Riga

Two photographs with captions. One is from a Hungarian newspaper and the other is from a German newspaper.

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-17.19.05, Allied forces in Bucharest and Japan

Clippings from a Hungarian newspaper regarding the Allied forces in Bucharest and Japan, July, 1941.

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-17.19.06, German campaign in Russia, 1941

Clippings of text and photographs from Hungarian and German newspapers regarding the German campaign in Russia, 1941.

Subject/Index Terms:: Eastern Front, German military campaign

Creators:: NSDAP, National Socialist German Workers' Party (1933 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-17.19.07, German campaign in Russia, 1941

Three photographs of the destruction after battle in Russia taken from German newspapers, 1941. Captions in German.

Subject/Index Terms:: Eastern Front, German military campaign

Creators:: NSDAP, National Socialist German Workers' Party (1933 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-17.19.08, Allied forces in Japan and Indochina, July 1941

Clippings of news headings from a Hungarian newspaper regarding the Allied forced in Japan and Indochina, July 1941.

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-17.19.09, American warplanes, 1941

A expercpt from a Hungarian newspaper regarding an American air base and three photographs of airplanes with captions in German, 1941.

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-17.19.10, Bombing of Moscow, 1941

Hungarian newspaper clippings from August 2 and August 8, 1941 regarding the bombing of Moscow by the German military.

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 11: RG-17.19.11, Destruction of Smolensk

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 12: RG-17.19.12, British offensive, August 1941

Excerpts from Hungarian and German newspapers regarding the British offensive, August 1941.

Creators:: Heinrich Hoffmann (photographer of the NSDAP leadership)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 13: RG-17.19.13, Allied and Axis warcraft in third year of the war, ca 1941