Wisconsin wartime press clippings

Identifier
irn519122
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.422
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1993
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn519122

Extent and Medium

box

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Dr. James Sernoe donated his collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Aug. 27, 2007.

Scope and Content

Contains photocopies of wartime newspaper clippings from the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Milwaukee Journal, and the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. The clippings specifically relate to each newspaper's coverage of Kristallnacht, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the liberation of Lublin-Majdanek, and the Nuremberg war crimes trials. The clippings were used in the 1989 writing of "Press coverage of the Holocaust, 1933-1945 :a comparison of three Milwaukee newspapers", by James Lawrence Sernoe for his masters degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Genre

  • Document
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