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Subject Guide: Holocaust—Newspapers

A selection of newspapers and online resources to assist researchers looking into the pubic discourse of the Holocaust. Part of the Library of Congress HIstory Unfolded initiative.

Customers at a newsstand that displays the Jewish newspapers Haynt (Today), Vort (Word), Folks-tsaytung (People's Newspaper), Moment, Shpilki (Barbs), Nasz Przeglad (Our Review), and Letste Nayes (Latest News), Łódź, Poland, 1930s. RG 120. YIVO

Titles K-Q

Ḳulṭur un dertsiung : shul un ḳulṭur zshurnal (New York)

Yiddish. Founded in 1931.

La Legione dell'Italia del popolo = The Legion of the people's Italy (New York)

German and Italian. Founded in 1942.

Mir (New York)

Yiddish. Founded in 1944. 

Der Morgen Zshurnal (New York)

Yiddish. We have only 1942 and later.

Nasza Trybuna (New York)

Polish and English. Founded in 1940. Located offsite.

Der nayer haver (New York)

Yiddish. Started in 1939.

New American (Illinois)

English. Founded in 1936. 

News Flashes from Czechoslovakia under Nazi domination (Illinois)

German and English. Founded in 1940. Part of the Wiener Library periodicals collection.

The New York Times

English. This periodical can be accessed on-site through a personal laptop or desktop computer via our Pro-Quest Database.

Nordlyset (New York)

German and Danish. Founded in 1940.

ORT Economic Review (New York)

German and English. Founded in 1940, published bi-monthly and then quarterly by the World ORT Union.

Der Ortodoks (New York)

Yiddish. Created in 1935. Called itself “the only 100 percent orthodox newspaper in America.”

The Orthodox Union (New York)

English. Founded in 1933. Published by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.

Oyfn shṿel (New York)

Yiddish. Founded in 1941. 

People and Liberty: an organ of Christian Democratic Principles (New York)

German and English. Founded in 1944. 

Pour la victoire : journal francais d'Amerique (New York)

German and French. Founded in 1942. 

Poylisher Id (New York)

Yiddish and English. Founded in 1941.