The Holocaust

Newspaper articles about the Holocaust tell dramatic and horrific stories of the Nazi persecution and annihilation of Jews and other groups deemed "inferior" by Nazi Germany such as the disabled, Roma (Gypsies), homosexuals, communists, social democrats, Jehovah's Witnesses, trade unionists and Slavic peoples such as Poles and Russians. While coverage of individually significant events in the history of the Holocaust is sporadic, reports on the persecution of the Jewish people and other groups in Europe are still prevalent in American newspapers before and during World War II. Although the full extent of the genocide perpetrated during the Nazi era was not known until the end of the war, stories about the detention of Jews, as well as the mass executions, were not absent.

With the ascension of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany in the 1930s, Jews became the primary target of Nazi racism. Yet, Hitler's mad quest for "racial purity" would lead to the perpetration of greatest crime in the history of the world. Persecution under Nazi tyranny reached unparalleled heights with the eventual extermination of millions of people.

NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest database of newspapers online, is providing a free archive of material relating to the Holocaust. Within the archive you will find articles about the persecution of the Jews in Germany which accompanied Hitler's rise to power, reports on the deportation of Jewish peoples as well as articles about the massacres which occurred in Europe during Nazi control. Click on the timeline above to view newspapers in chronological order or begin searching the newspaper pages with your own key words.