Ukrainian Collaborationist Newspapers, Lvivski Vist, Krakivski Visti, and Wolyn, 1940-1945 | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by publication, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.
Record group is comprised of three collections: 1. Krakivski Visti publications; 2. Lvivski Visti publications; 3. Wolyn publications.
A selection of Ukrainian-language collaborating periodicals, published under the German occupation regime in Lviv (Eastern Galicia), Cracow (Western Galicia) and Wolyn (Volhynia) region. These periodicals replicated the German officialdom, were under German censorsship and propagated the doctrine of National Socialism.
In local matters, they typically appealed to Ukrainian population, asking to support the German-Nazi cause.
Ukrainian newspapers followed official German ideology. They adopted anti-Bolshevik rhetoric, but emphasized Ukrainian economic and cultural development under German auspices. The editorial boards carried out a policy of soliciting Ukrainian support for the German cause. German administration limited the scope of both publications, Lvivski Visti and Krakivski Visti, to pure Ukrainian internal affairs and to the demonstration of Ukrainian support of the Nazis’ “New Order.” It was typical, within these publications, to not to give any accounts of the German genocidal policy, and largely, the editions resorted to silencing the mass killing of Jews in Galicia. Ukrainian newspapers presented the Jewish Question in light of the official Nazi propaganda, corollary to the Jewish world conspiracy.
Execution of the Final Solution was never a theme for the Ukrainian periodicals published under German control. This theme was restricted and, if reported, was limited to the short reports about the Ukrainian order police’s mundane activities. References to Ukrainian national movement (OUN) were also restricted, and, therefore, there were no reflections on the Movement of the Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the activities of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
Everyday attention was given to economic and cultural life, and especially to the support of the German war effort. In 1943 and 1944, both Lvivski Visti and Krakivski Visti hailed the German-approved formation of the 14th Waffen SS Division Halychyna, composed of Ukrainian volunteers. Ukrainians prefered to see this formation, especially at the end of the war, as a nucleus for a future Ukrainian Army, calling it the First Ukrainian Rifle Division. Both newspapers serve as primary sources for life in the occupied territories and reflect the complex dynamic of the Ukrainian-German relations as they developed over the time.
Wolyn (Volhynia) was another Ukrainian-language collaborationist newspaper published in Rivne (Rowne). Wolyn was published in Reichskommissariat Ukraine (the former Soviet territory), while Lvivski Visti and Krakivski Visti were published in General Gouvernment (German-occupied Poland). German authorities divided the occupied Ukrainian territories between the General Gouvernment (occupied Poland) and Reichskommissariat Ukraine. Overall, German occupation regime was somewhat softer in the district of Galicia (General Gouvernment), compared to the Reichskommissariat Ukraine or the other Soviet-occupied territories.
Author: staffcollaboration in the Holocaust
District Galicia (General Government: Administrative Unit), 1941 -- 1945
Documents in Ukrainian language
Eastern Galicia (Poland: Region)
General Government (German-occupied Poland), 1939 -- 1945
Holocaust in Ukraine
Ideology of Ukrainian Nationalism
Krakivski Visti, Ukrainian collaborating with German Authorities periodical in Cracow, 1940 -- 1945
Lemberg (Poland: General Government: District Galicia), 1941 -- 1944
Lviv (Ukraine)
Lvivski Visti, Ukrainian collaborating with German Authorities periodical, Lviv, 1940 --1944
Lwow (Poland)
Narratives in Ukrainian language
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)
periodicals, Ukrainian
Poland (1939 --1945)
Theory of Ukrainian Nationalism
Ukraine (1939-1945)
Ukrainian -- Jewish Relation under the Nazi-German regime in Eastern Galicia, 1941 -- 1944
Ukrainian - German Relations, 1939 -- 1941
Ukrainian - German Relations, 1941 -- 1945
Ukrainian administrative and police authorities in Eastern Galicia, 1941 -- 1944
Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
Ukrainian collaborating with German authorities periodicals in Cracow, 1940 --1945
Ukrainian collaborating with German authorities periodicals in Lviv, 1941 -- 1944
Ukrainian combat SS Division Galicia, 1944
Ukrainian military formations in the Second World War, 1939 -- 1945
Ukrainian national aspirations
Ukrainian political spectrum in Eastern Galicia, 1941 -- 1945
Ukrainian public organizations in Eastern Galicia under the Nazi-German regime, 1941 -- 1944
Ukrainian Society of East Galicia in relation to Nazi-German cause, 1939 --1945
Wolyn (Volhynia), Ukrainian collaborating periodical, 1941
Wolyn province (1940 -- 1945)
This record group is comprised of the periodicals Krakivski Visti, Lvivski Visti, and Wolyn, a group of Ukrainian collaborator newspapers during the Second World War. Initiated by the Ukrainian civil administration, the publication of Ukrainian-language newspapers in German-occupied Galicia, Lvivski Visti and Krakivski Visti began publication soon after the German Army invaded first Poland (Krakivski Visti) and then the USSR (Lvivski Visti). Expropriation of formerly-owned Jewish publishing houses became possible as a result of the process called Aryanization (transferring of Jewish property to non-Jewish individuals or organizations). Thus Jewish publishing houses in Lviv and Cracow were aryanized and given to the Ukrainian organizations, which allowed for the publication of periodicals such as these.
All periodicals are digitized.
Documents and Files:
RG-21.01.01, Krakivski Visti, March 27, 1940
RG-21.01.02, Krakivski Visti, April 4, 1940
RG-21.01.03, Krakivski Visti, April 7, 1940
RG-21.01.04, Krakivski Visti, April 24, 1940
RG-21.01.05, Krakivski Visti, May 4, 1940
RG-21.01.06, Krakivski Visti, May 27, 1940
RG-21.01.07, Krakivski Visti, May 31, 1940
RG-21.01.08, Krakivski Visti, August 9, 1940
RG-21.01.08, Krakivski Visti, August 9, 1940
RG-21.01.09, Krakivski Visti, August 16, 1940
RG-21.01.10, Krakivski Visti, September 16, 1940
RG-21.01.11, Krakivski Visti, September 23, 1940
RG-21.01.12, Krakivski Visti, August 22, 1940
RG-21.01.13, Krakivski Visti, August 28, 1940
RG-21.01.14, Krakivski Visti, October 30, 1940
RG-21.01.15, Krakivski Visti, November 1, 1940
RG-21.01.16, Krakivski Visti, January 3, 1941
RG-21.01.17, Krakivski Visti, January 11, 1940
RG-21.01.18, Krakivski Visti, January 25, 1940
RG-21.01.19, Krakivski Visti, January, 1944
RG-21.01.20, Krakivski Visti, February 10, 1944
RG-21.01.21, Krakivski Visti, April 14, 1940
RG-21.01.22, Krakivski Visti, July 24, 1944
RG-21.01.23, Krakivski Visti, July 29, 1944
RG-21.01.24, Krakivski Visti, September 15, 1944
RG-21.01.25, Krakivski Visti, November 7, 1944
RG-21.01.26, Krakivski Visti, November 9, 1944
RG-21.01.27, Krakivski Visti, November 10, 1944
RG-21.01.28, Krakivski Visti, November 24, 1940
RG-21.01.29, Krakivski Visti, December 6, 1944
RG-21.01.30, Krakivski Visti, December 31, 1944
RG-21.01.31, Krakivski Visti, January, 1945
RG-21.02.01, Lvivski Visti, 29 April 1943, Formation of SS Galizein Division
RG-21.02.02, Lvivski Visti, 6 May 1943, Nazi Governor of the District Galicia, Dr. O. Vechter
RG-21.02.03, Lvivski Visti, February 6-10, 1942
RG-21.02.04, Lvivski Vist, German Troops Enter Lviv on 30 June 1941
RG-21.02.05, Lvivski Visti, February 14, 1942
RG-21.02.06, Lvivski Visti, February 16, 1942
RG-21.02.07, Lvivski Visti, February 13, 1942
RG-21.02.08, Lvivski Visti, February 18, 1941
RG-21.02.09, Lvivski Visti, February 19, 1942
RG-21.02.10, Lvivski Visti, March 1, 1942
RG-21.02.11, Lvivski Visti, March 12, 1942
RG-21.02.12, Lvivski Visti, March 3, 1942
RG-21.02.13, Lvivski Visti, March 31, 1942
RG-21.02.14, Lvivski Visti, March 5, 1942
RG-21.02.15, Lvivski Visti, March 30, 1942
RG-21.02.16, Lvivski Visti, April 20, 1942
RG-21.02.17, Lvivski Visti, May 1, 1942
RG-21.02.18, Lvivski Visti, May 2, 1942
RG-21.02.19, Lvivski Visti, May 8, 1942
RG-21.02.20, Lvivski Visti, May 15, 1942
RG-21.02.21, Lvivski Visti, June 11, 1942
RG-21.02.22, Lvivski Visti, June 20, 1942
RG-21.02.23, Lvivski Visti, June 27, 1942
RG-21.02.24, Lvivski Visti, June 9, 1942
RG-21.02.25, Lvivski Visti, July 2, 1942
RG-21.02.26, Lvivski Visti, July 4, 1942
RG-21.02.27, Lvivski Visti, July 7, 1942
RG-21.02.28, Lvivski Visti, July 14, 1942
RG-21.02.29, Lvivski Visti, September 26, 1942
RG-21.02.30, Lvivski Visti, September 22, 1942
RG-21.02.31, Lvivski Visti, September 21, 1942
RG-21.02.32, Lvivski Visti, January 22, 1943
RG-21.02.33, Lvivski Visti, February 21-22, 1943
RG-21.02.34, Lvivski Visti, February 20, 1943
RG-21.02.35, Lvivski Visti, March 1, 1943
RG-21.02.36, Lvivski Visti, April 29, 1943
RG-21.02.37, Lvivski Visti, April 28, 1943
RG-21.02.38, Lvivski Visti, April 28, 1943
RG-21.02.39, Lvivski Visti, May 4, 1943
RG-21.02.40, Lvivski Visti, May 3, 1943
RG-21.02.41, Lvivski Visti, May 5, 1943
RG-21.02.42, Lvivski Visti, May 4, 1943
RG-21.02.43, Lvivski Visti, May 6, 1943
RG-21.02.44, Lvivski Visti, May 5, 1943
RG-21.02.45, Lvivski Visti, May 7, 1943
RG-21.02.46, Lvivski Visti, May 8, 1943
RG-21.02.47, Lvivski Visti, May 7, 1943
RG-21.02.48, Lvivski Visti, May 9-10, 1943
RG-21.02.49, Lvivski Visti, May 8, 1943
RG-21.02.50, Lvivski Visti, May 12, 1943
RG-21.02.51, Lvivski Visti, May 14, 1943
RG-21.02.52, Lvivski Visti, May 15, 1943
RG-21.02.53, Lvivski Visti, May 16-17, 1943
RG-21.02.54, Lvivski Visti, May 18, 1943
RG-21.02.55, Lvivski Visti, May 20, 1943
RG-21.02.56, Lvivski Visti, May 22, 1943
RG-21.02.57, Lvivski Visti, May 21, 1943
RG-21.02.58, Lvivski Visti, May 23-24, 1943
RG-21.02.59, Lvivski Visti, May 25, 1943
RG-21.02.60, Lvivski Visti, May 30-31, 1943
RG-21.02.61, Lvivski Visti, June 3, 1943
RG-21.02.62, Lvivski Visti, June 6, 1943
RG-21.02.63, Lvivski Visti, June 8, 1943
RG-21.02.64, Lvivski Visti, June 23, 1943
RG-21.03.01, Woly, Ukrainian Collaboration in Volhynia, Wolyn, 21 September 1941
RG-21.03.02, Wolyn, September 1, 1941
RG-21.03.03, Wolyn, Ukrainian newspaper Wolyn, German army enters Kiev, 30 September 1941
RG-21.03.04, Wolyn, September 7, 1941
RG-21.03.05, Wolyn, September 30, 1941
RG-21.03.06, Wolyn, September 21, 1941
RG-21.03.07, Wolyn, September 28, 1941
RG-21.03.08, Wolyn, September 26, 1941
RG-21.03.09, Wolyn, October 30, 1941
RG-21.03.10, Wolyn, November 2, 1941
RG-21.03.11, Wolyn, November 9, 1941
RG-21.03.12, Wolyn, November 16, 1941
RG-21.03.13, Wolyn, November 27, 1941
RG-21.03.14, Wolyn, December 7, 1941
RG-21.03.15, Wolyn, December 25, 1941
RG-21.04.01, Ukrainian Word, July 22, 1941, No 1
RG-21.04.02, Ukrainian Word, July 24, 1941, No 2
RG-21.04.03, Ukrainian Word, July 29, 1941, No 4
RG-21.04.04, Ukrainian Word, July 31, 1941, No 5
RG-21.04.05, Ukrainian Word, August 2, 1941, No 6
RG-21.04.06, Ukrainian Word, August 10, 1941, No 9
RG-21.04.07, Ukrainian Word, August 13, 1941, No 10
RG-21.04.08, Ukrainian Word, August 15, 1941, No 11
RG-21.04.09, Ukrainian Word, August 17, 1941, No 12
RG-21.04.10, Ukrainian Word, August 20, 1941, No 13
RG-21.04.11, Ukrainian Word, August 22, 1941, No 14
RG-21.04.117, The Stanislaviv Word, June 19, 1942, No 100
RG-21.04.118, The Stanislaviv Word, June 21, 1942, No 101
RG-21.04.119, The Stanislaviv Word, June 28, 1942, No 104
RG-21.04.12, Ukrainian Word, August 28, 1941, No 18
RG-21.04.120, The Stanislaviv Word, July 1, 1942, No 105
RG-21.04.13, Ukrainian Word, August 24, 1941, No 15
RG-21.04.14, Ukrainian Word, August 31, 1941, No 18
RG-21.04.15, Ukrainian Word, September 21, 1941, No 21
RG-21.04.16, Ukrainian Word, September 30, 1941, No 23
RG-21.04.17, Ukrainian Word, October 22, 1941, No 25
RG-21.04.18, Ukrainian Word, November 25, 1941, No 26
RG-21.04.19, Ukrainian Word, November 27, 1941, No 27
RG-21.04.20, Ukrainian Word, November 30, 1941, No 28
RG-21.04.21, Ukrainian Word, December 2, 1941, No 29
RG-21.04.22, Ukrainian Word, December 4, 1941, No 30
RG-21.04.23, Ukrainian Word, December 7, 1941, No 31
RG-21.04.24, Ukrainian Word, December 9, 1941, No 32
RG-21.04.25, Ukrainian Word, December 11, 1941, No 33
RG-21.04.26, Ukrainian Word, December 14, 1941, No 34
RG-21.04.27, Ukrainian Word, December 16, 1941, No 35
RG-21.04.28, Ukrainian Word, December 18, 1941, No 36
RG-21.04.29, Ukrainian Word, December 21, 1941, No 37
RG-21.04.30, Ukrainian Word, December 23, 1941, No 38
RG-21.04.31, Ukrainian Word, December 25, 1941, No 39
RG-21.04.32, Ukrainian Word, December 28, 1941, No 40
RG-21.04.33, Ukrainian Word, December 30, 1941, No 41
RG-21.04.34, Ukrainian Word, January 1, 1942, No 42
RG-21.04.35, Ukrainian Word, January 4, 1942, No 43
RG-21.04.36, Ukrainian Word, January 7, 1942, No 44
RG-21.04.37, Ukrainian Word, January 14, 1942, No 46
RG-21.04.38, Ukrainian Word, January 16, 1941, No 47
RG-21.04.39, Ukrainian Word, January 18, 1942, No 48
RG-21.04.40, Ukrainian Word, February 4, 1942, No 55
RG-21.04.41, Ukrainian Word, February 8, 1942, No 57
RG-21.04.42, Ukrainian Word, March 6, 1942, No 68
RG-21.04.43, Ukrainian Word, March 8, 1942, No 69
RG-21.04.44, Ukrainian Word, March 11, 1942, No 70
RG-21.04.45, Ukrainian Word, March 13, 1942, No 71
RG-21.04.46, Ukrainian Word, March 15, 1942, No 72
RG-21.04.47, Ukrainian Word, March 18, 1942, No 73
RG-21.04.48, Ukrainian Word, March 20, 1942, No 74
RG-21.04.49, Ukrainian Word, March 22, 1942, No 75
RG-21.04.50, Ukrainian Word, March 25, 1942, No 76
RG-21.04.51, Ukrainian Word, March 27, 1942, No 77
RG-21.04.52, Ukrainian Word, March 29, 1942, No 78
RG-21.04.62, The Stanislaviv Word, August 5, 1942, No 80
RG-21.04.63, The Stanislaviv Word, April 10, 1942, No 81
RG-21.04.64, The Stanislaviv Word, April 12, 1942, No 82
RG-21.04.65, The Stanislaviv Word, April 19, 1942, No 85
RG-21.04.66, The Stanislaviv Word, April 22, 1942, No 86
RG-21.04.67, The Stanislaviv Word, April 24, 1942, No 87
RG-21.04.68, The Stanislaviv Word, April 26, 1942, No 88
RG-21.04.69, The Stanislaviv Word, April 29, 1942, No 89
RG-21.04.70, The Stanislaviv Word, May 24, 1942, No 90
RG-21.04.71, The Stanislaviv Word, May 29, 1942, No 91
RG-21.04.72, The Stanislaviv Word, May 31, 1942, No 92
RG-21.04.73, The Stanislaviv Word, June 3, 1942, No 93
RG-21.04.74, The Stanislaviv Word, June 5, 1942, No 94
RG-21.04.75, The Stanislaviv Word, June 7, 1942, No 95
RG-21.04.76, The Stanislaviv Word, June 10, 1942, No 96
RG-21.04.77, The Stanislaviv Word, June 12, 1942, No 97
RG-21.04.78, The Stanislaviv Word June 14, 1942, No 98
RG-21.04.79, The Stanislaviv Word, June 17, 1942, No 99
Sub-Collection 1: RG-21.01, Krakivski Visti (Cracow Herald), 1940 -- 1945
Sub-Collection 2: RG-21.02, Lvivski Vist (Lviv Herald), 1941 -- 1944
Sub-Collection 3: RG-21.03, Wolyn, Volhnynia, periodical, 1941
Sub-Collection 4: RG-21.04, Ukrainian Word, Stanyslaviv, 1941 -- 1944
Sub-Collection 5: RG-21.05, The Stanislaviv Word (Stanislavivs'ke Slovo), 1942 -- 1943
Sub-Collection 6: RG-21.06, Samostijna Ukraina (The Independent Ukraine) Stanislaviv, July 1941