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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 2: RG-17.02, Postwar Periodicals, in Polish and Russian languages, 1945 -- 1946

These publications manifest a growing division of Europe between the Soviet Block and Western countries, divided by the "Iron Curtain."

Subject/Index Terms:: The Truth (Pravda), the main organ of the Communist Party of the USSR; Political publications, Soviet; Allied periodicals, Polish; Europe (1945 -- 1991); The USSR (1945 -- 1991); Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874--1965; Great Britain (1945 -- Present); United States (1945 -- 1960)

Creators:: Alllied Armed Forces, Polish (1945); periodicals published by Polish Armed Forces under the Allied Command (1945); Pravda (The Truth), the main Soviet daily, organ of the Communist Party of the USSR (1946); Winston Churchill, the Fulton Speech (1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-17.02.01, Polish-allied newspaper, 1945 -- 1946

Polish newspaper published under the Allies auspices outside Poland. Available pages, 7-10. It features an article about capturing of Rudolf Hoess and his eventual trial in Poland, ca. 1945-1946.

Subject/Index Terms:: Allied periodicals, Polish; Periodicals, Polish; Germany (1945 -- 1949); Liberation of concentration camps; Armed Forces, Allied; Polish, language; Polish newspaper; English, language; Hoess, Rudolf; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Trials and proceedings over Nazi-German perpetrators; War crimes trials--Post-WWII; Poetry and literature (post-war); Photographs; Polish armed forces integrated in the Allied armed forces, the Second World War, periodicals; Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz, captured by allied forces, photograph, ca 1945; Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz, extradited to Poland, photograph, ca 1945; war related narratives and poetry published in Polish military periodicals, ca 1945; Narratives in Polish language; Documents in Polish language

Creators:: periodicals published by Polish Armed Forces under the Allied Command (1945); Polish-Allied Newspaper (ca 1945--1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-17.02.02, Pravda, Churchill Fulton speech 1, 1946

Pravda (The Truth), an official newspaper of the All-Union Communist Party of the USSR. It carries an article on the Churchill’s historic speech in Fulton (USA) on the descending Iron Curtain from Stettin to Trieste, Beginning of the Cold War. The Archive has one issue of 11 March 1946.

Subject/Index Terms:: Political publications, Soviet; The Truth (Pravda), the main organ of the Communist Party of the USSR; The USSR (1945--1991); Moscow (Russia); Cold War; Communist newspaper; Russian, language; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874--1965; postwar publication; periodicals, Soviet Union; Periodicals, Soviet, postwar; Fulton Speech of Winston Churchill, published in the Soviet communist newspaper Pravda March 5, 1946; Soviet, stalinist perception and reflections on Churchill speech in Fulton, US, published in Pravda; Churchill speech in Fulton, US, discourse and reflections in the Soviet communist newspaper Pravda; Geo Political situation in Europe in regard to Soviet expansion, outlined by Churchill; Soviet deception of Churchill speech, falsification and propaganda, Pravda, March 6, 1946; Soviet demagoguery, falsifications and propaganda, postwar; Soviet discourse of Churchill speech, Atlantic Alliance, sanitary cordon against the USSR, Pravda; Soviet deception on mass media reception of the Churchill speech, Pravda, March 6, 1946; Soviet Stalinist regime, 1920s -- 1950s; Soviet communist periodicals, lies and deception, Pravda, periodical; Fulton (Missouri, United States); Soviet Communist periodical Pravda (the Truth) accuses Churchill of slander, the Fulton speech 1946; Soviet stalinist deception and slander as official domestic and foreign politics of the USSR postwar; Documents in Russian language; Narratives in Russian language; Pravda (the Truth), periodical, official organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Soviet reflection and discourse of Iron Curtain between East and West Europe, Pravda, March 6, 1946; Soviet influence and control over East and Central Europe, Churchill speech in Fulton, March 5, 1946; Soviet discourse of Anglo-American military alliance, Churchill, Fulton Speech, Pravda, March 6 1946; stalinist harsh criticism of Churchill with regard to his Speech in Fulton about Soviet threat; Soviet stalinist and communist demagoguery narratives, the USSR, stalinist regime; Soviet denial of their expansion in East and Central Europe, Soviet imperialism, postwar; Iron Curtain from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, Cold War begins, 1945

Creators:: Pravda (The Truth), the main Soviet daily, organ of the Communist Party of the USSR (1946); Winston Churchill, the Fulton Speech (1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-17.02.03, Pravda, Churchill Fulton speech 2, 1946

Subject/Index Terms:: The Truth (Pravda), the main organ of the Communist Party of the USSR; Political publications, Soviet; The USSR (1945 -- 1991); Cold War; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874--1965; Communist newspaper; Russian, language; postwar publication; Moscow (Russia); Soviet Communist periodical Pravda (the Truth) accuses Churchill of slander, the Fulton speech 1946; Soviet, stalinist perception and reflections on Churchill speech in Fulton, US, published in Pravda; Fulton (Missouri, United States); Soviet communist periodicals, lies and deception, Pravda, periodical; Periodicals, Soviet, postwar; Fulton Speech of Winston Churchill, published in the Soviet communist newspaper Pravda March 5, 1946; Churchill speech in Fulton, US, discourse and reflections in the Soviet communist newspaper Pravda; Geo Political situation in Europe in regard to Soviet expansion, outlined by Churchill; Soviet deception of Churchill speech, falsification and propaganda, Pravda, March 6, 1946; Soviet demagoguery, falsifications and propaganda, postwar; Soviet discourse of Churchill speech, Atlantic Alliance, sanitary cordon against the USSR, Pravda; Soviet deception on mass media reception of the Churchill speech, Pravda, March 6, 1946; Soviet Stalinist regime, 1920s -- 1950s; Soviet stalinist deception and slander as official domestic and foreign politics of the USSR postwar; Documents in Russian language; Narratives in Russian language; Pravda (the Truth), periodical, official organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Soviet reflection and discourse of Iron Curtain between East and West Europe, Pravda, March 6, 1946; Soviet influence and control over East and Central Europe, Churchill speech in Fulton, March 5, 1946; Soviet discourse of Anglo-American military alliance, Churchill, Fulton Speech, Pravda, March 6 1946; stalinist harsh criticism of Churchill with regard to his Speech in Fulton about Soviet threat; Soviet stalinist and communist demagoguery narratives, the USSR, stalinist regime; Soviet denial of their expansion in East and Central Europe, Soviet imperialism, postwar; Iron Curtain from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, Cold War begins, 1945

Creators:: Pravda (The Truth), the main Soviet daily, organ of the Communist Party of the USSR (1946); Winston Churchill, the Fulton Speech (1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-17.02.04, Pages from the Soviet newspapers. No 141, 1945

Two pages from a Soviet and Hungarian newspaper with photographs taken in various locations. The first page contains photographs with captions in Hungarian and the second page contains photographs with captions in Russian. These periodicals were published in 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Berlin (Germany); Prisoners of War, German; Soldiers, Soviet Red Army; Hungarian, language; Periodicals, Hungarian; Newspaper, Hungarian; Russian, language; newspaper, Soviet Union; periodicals, Soviet Union; Newspaper Article; newspaper clippings; Wartime Publication, Second World War; Photographs; wartime photographs; Signing of the Act of Nazi Germany unconditional surrender May 8, 1945, Berlin; Marshal Zhukov, USSR, Marshal Arthur Tedder, Allied Air Force, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Germany; Zhukov, USSR, Tedder, Allies, Keitel, signing the Act of Capitulation of Germany, Berlin, May 8 1945; Wartime photographs published in the Soviet newspaper Pravda, June 1945; Marshal Zhukov with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, photograph published in Pravda, June 1945; Marshal Zhukov with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, photograph published in Pravda, June 1945; German prisoners of war on forced march of shame in the streets of Moscow, 1944, photograph; Soviet horse mount soldier at the outskirts of Berlin, talking to a young woman, photograph, 1945; Reflections of the discourse of the Second World War, photodocuments published in periodicals; Photodocuments in Russian language; Surrender of Nazi Germany, reportage and photodocuments, May 1945

Creators:: Hungarian periodical; Periodicals, Soviet, published in the USSR

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-17.02.05, Pages from the Soviet newspapers, 1945

Clippings from Soviet newspapers. These clippings are mostly photographs from newspapers, showing Moscow as well as photographs of Soviet Union soldiers. The newspaper was published in 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Soviet cheering crowds listening to the announcement of Victory over Nazi Germany, Moscow, Pravda; Soldiers, Soviet Red Army; war planes; Russian, language; newspaper, Soviet Union; periodicals, Soviet Union; Newspaper Article; newspaper clippings; Wartime Publication, Second World War; Photographs; wartime photographs; Pravda (the Truth), official organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1918 -- 1992; Photo reportage in Pravda (the Truth), Soviet official communist newpaper, May 1945; Moscow (the USSR); Red flags over buildings in Moscow on May 9, the Soviet Victory Day over Nazi Germany, Pravda, 1945; Soviet and Allied high ranking commanders meet to sign German surrender, Berlin, May 8, 1945, Pravda; Photographs of Soviet and Allied generals meeting before the signing of German surrender, May 8 1945; Exterior and interior of the mansion where German surrender is accepted by the Allies, May 8, 1945; German surrender in the Second World War, photodocuments, Pravda, May 1945; Photodocuments in Russian language; Berlin (Germany); Documents in Russian language

Creators:: Soviet Union periodical; Russian-language newspaper

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-17.02.06, The Vicory Day reflected in the Soviet periodicals, 1941

Pages from a Soviet Union periodical. The newspaper reports on The Victory Day. The newspaper was published in 1941.

Subject/Index Terms:: War Tanks; Soviet and American officers socializing surrounded by a cheering crowd, Moscow, May 9, 1945, Pravda; Soldiers, Soviet Red Army; Russian, language; newspaper, Soviet Union; periodicals, Soviet Union; Newspaper Article; newspaper clippings; Wartime Publication, Second World War; Photographs; wartime photographs; Moscow (the USSR); Celebration of the Victory Day in Moscow, May 9, 1945, photographs and commets, Pravda, May, 1945; Photo-reportage of the Victory Day celebration, May 9, 1945, Moscow, Pravda, May 1945; Moscow celebrates the Victory Day, May 9, 1945, photo reportage, Pravda, May 1945; The Light of Victory, article by Evgenii Kriger published in Pravda, May, 1945; Soviet official narrative in regard to the victory over Nazi German, by Evgenii Kriger, Pravda, 1945; Soviet official narrative in regard to celebration of the Victory Day by Evgenii Kriger, Pravda 1945; Photodocuments in Russian language; A feeling of comradeship between the Soviet people and the Allies on the Victory Day, May 9, 1945; Celebration of the Victory Day, May 9, 1945 at a Soviet collective farm, photograph, Pravda, 1945; Documents in Russian language

Creators:: Soviet Union periodical; Russian-language newspaper

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-17.02.07, Pages from Ogoniok, (The Spark), No 23, 1945

Newspaper clippings from the Russian-language newspaper Ogoniok (The Spark). The pages include photographs of war tanks as well as Soviet soldiers. There are also clippings with photographs of Holocaust concentration camp victims as well as a photograph of Winston Churchill marching with Soviet soldiers. The newspaper was published in 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Ogoniok (The Spark), Russian-language periodical; Berlin (Germany); Soldiers, Soviet Red Army; Soviet tanks on the streets of Berlin, May 1945, photograph in Ogoniok, June 10, 1945; Soviet and allied soldiers in Berlin, beginning of May, 1945, Ogoniok (A Little Flame), May, 1945; Ogoniok (Ogonyok or a Little Flame) Soviet periodical, magazine outlet of anti-Stalinist narratives; Russian, language; newspaper, Soviet Union; periodicals, Soviet Union; Newspaper Article; newspaper clippings; Wartime Publication, Second World War; Photographs; wartime photographs; Soviet magazine Ogoniok (the Spark), photo reportage from Berlin in May 1945; The Battle of Berlin, April - May 1945, photo reportage, Ogoniok, June 10, 1945; Soviet Red Army soldiers fight for Berlin, beginning of May 1945, photographs, Ogoniok, June, 1945; Soviet military journalist and photographers, the Second World War, photo reportage; E. Khaldei, Soviet military journalist and photographer, the Second World War, Berlin, May 1945; D. Chernov, Soviet military journalist and photographer, the Second World War, Berlin, May, 1945; Soviet Red Army soldiers near the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, May 1945, Ogoniok, June 10, 1945; Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, the Commander in Chief dictator; Appeal of Joseph Stalin to Soviet people with regard to the victory over Nazi Germany, May 9, 1945; Soviet Red Army and Allied armed forces meet at Torgau, Saxony, Germany, April 1945, Ogoniok, 1945; Aftermath of liberation of Nazi German concentration camps, photographs in Ogoniok, June 1945; Photodocuments in Russian language; Documents in Russian language

Creators:: Ogoniok (The Spark), Russian-language periodical; Soviet Union periodical; Russian-language newspaper

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-17.02.08, Pages form the Soviet periodicals . No 45, circa 1945

Clippings from various Russian-language newspapers. The newspapers include photographs of Soviet Union soldiers, a satirical cartoon concerning Mussolini and Hitler, as well as photographs from Auschwitz concentration camp. The newspaper clippings are all in Russian.

Subject/Index Terms:: Soldiers, Soviet Red Army; Mussolini, Benito (Italian "Il Duce"); Adolf Hitler, dictator and German Chancellor and President; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Concentration Camp Crematorium; Liberation of concentration camps; concentration camp victims; mass graves; German civilians digging mass graves for concentration camp victims; Russian, language; newspaper, Soviet Union; periodicals, Soviet Union; Newspaper Article; newspaper clippings; Wartime Publication, Second World War; Photographs; wartime photographs

Creators:: Soviet Union periodical; Russian-language newspaper

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-17.02.09, Suvorovskii Natisk (A Suvorov Attack), 1945

Two Russian-language newspapers, including one newspaper called Forward to Victory. The newspapers were published in 1945 and are written in Russian.

Subject/Index Terms:: Soldiers, Soviet Red Army; War Tanks; Forward to Victory, Russian-language periodical; Russian, language; newspaper, Soviet Union; periodicals, Soviet Union; Newspaper Article; newspaper clippings; Wartime Publication, Second World War

Creators:: Forward to Victory, Russian-language periodical; Soviet Union periodical; Russian-language newspaper

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-17.02.10, Ogoniok (the Spark), Soviet Red Army in Berlin. No 39, May 1945

Clippings from the Russian-language newspaper Ogoniok (The Spark). The clippings include photographs of Soviet Union soldiers in Berlin. The newspaper was published in May 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Ogoniok (The Spark), Russian-language periodical; Soldiers, Soviet Red Army; Berlin (Germany); Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Party and Prime Minister of the USSR, 1879 -- 1953; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874--1965; Truman, Harry S.; Adolf Hitler, dictator and German Chancellor and President; Russian, language; newspaper, Soviet Union; periodicals, Soviet Union; Newspaper Article; newspaper clippings; Wartime Publication, Second World War; Photographs; wartime photographs

Creators:: Ogoniok (The Spark), Russian-language periodical; Soviet Union periodical; Russian-language newspaper