Already, we can see that they were reporting on Nazi plans to “solve” The Jewish Question. In September 1939. The last sentence is particularly haunting.

And where in the paper was this located?

Page 5.

Let’s look at another example from September 1939.

This clipping is from September 30, 1939. Barely two paragraphs are written about the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where around 100,000 people were murdered at the end of the war.

It says that Sachsenhausen was established at this date, however, Sachsenhausen, had already been created and was holding prisoners by 1936. When The Nazis invaded Poland, there was a huge increase in the amount of Jewish people who were sent there, so we can assume that’s what this is referring to.

Regardless, it’s in the middle of page 6, surrounded with a bunch of other stories. It’s meant to be hidden that way.

Now, let’s move on to October 1939.

Above is a clipping of an article from October 27, 1939, on page 3. Notice how it describes the deportation of an entire Jewish community ever-so-calmly. This is a tone you will recognize throughout the rest of the articles I show you, including the next one:

Buried on page 7 of 42, this clipping from December 27, 1939 talks about the deportation of 80,000 Galician Jews living in Germany to Poland. They even make a brief mention of camps.

In this clipping from January 23, 1940, we hear the very first possible death toll so far — 250,000 Jews murdered by the living conditions created by The Nazis.

In this next clipping, we see discussion of Jewish people being deported, and a ghetto in Lublin being set up. This was published on January 23, 1940, and placed on page 11. The Lublin Ghetto would be set up one year later.

Now, you may be wondering, what was on the front page during those days? Well, I’ll show you:

Essentially, what this shows is that the most important newspaper in America found things such as labor contracts and state senate elections more important to report on than the deportations of thousands of Jewish people.

This next clipping exemplifies how they particularly hid the Jewish aspect of the genocide.

In the next clipping, we see something incredible:

In this clipping from page 4 of 46 from June 25, 1940, the chairman of the administrative committee of the World Jewish Congress speaks of the dangers facing the Jewish people, and how they face potential annihilation.

And he was absolutely right.

On August 7, 1940, The New York Times published an article, with a short statement of how 65,000 Jews in Krakow, Poland would be expelled within two weeks. It is truly amazing how something like this can only get a few paragraphs and then be buried on page 5.

In another hidden article from The New York Times, there is yet more discussion of French Jews being put in concentration camps. It is essential to understand that the concentration camps as we know how they turned out to be, weren’t the same as the way they were on October 10, 1940 — the date this article was published. The gas chambers had not been created yet; but it is quite telling how they can nonchalantly talk about Jewish people being put into concentration camps and bury it in page 10.

Meanwhile, a very similar discussion was being held in Slovakia:

As we can see in this hidden clipping on page 6 from November 30, 1940, they were discussing plans to “liquidate or Aryanize” all Jewish business in Slovakia, and even talking about placing them in concentration camps.

Above is a description of a new ghetto that would soon be created in Warsaw. Of course, this would become the infamous Warsaw Ghetto. But this story on December 15, 1940, only earned a spot on page 7.

As demonstrated in the next clipping, they will have the same attitude towards antisemitic pogroms. On January 25, 1941, The New York Times decided that a pogrom in which 300 Jewish people are murdered, only lands on page 5.

Surprisingly, this next clipping from January 28, 1941 made it onto page 2 — but not the front page.

Here, they talk more about tens of thousands of Jewish people sent to concentration camps; but it is still hidden within the page, as it is only two small paragraphs.

In the next clipping from February 28, 1941 on page 4, 50,000 Jews from Vienna are described as pleading for help to emigrate to The United States, but the immigration quotas remain unfilled as many can’t afford transportation to go there.

Ironically, The New York Times had posted 4 days earlier about Romanian Jews begging The United States to allow more refugee children, because they weren’t doing nearly enough. This tiny piece was also on page 4.

Around the same time, we also have one of the first detailed descriptions of a concentration camp in France. This was from February 23, 1941, on page 13.

How stories like these didn’t make it to the front page are absolutely mind-boggling, and disgusting to me.

In the next clipping we see another story that surprisingly made it to page 2, but only a few paragraphs.

This piece from March 21, 1941, describes how 88,951 Jews in Slovakia will be forced to live in ghettos, segregated from the “Aryans”, and will be forced to emigrate soon.

Meanwhile, back in Poland, the Gestapo is reported as “being busy again.”

Once again, this clipping from March 30, 1941 isn’t important. It’s only worthy to be placed on page 9.

But you know what’s more important?

Other news about the war, just not the ongoing genocide of the Jewish people.

Next, here’s a clipping of the paper from May 4, 1941.

Here, they describe how Jews in Croatia will have their property confiscated and many will be fired from their jobs. It’s only a few paragraphs though. Interesting how all the stories that even make it close to the front page are extremely short.

Similarly, when Romania’s Antonescu banned all Jews from Moldavia and Bukovina, it landed on page 2 of the June 5, 1941 page — but is only a few sentences long.

We see this once again on July 25, 1941 — Jewish people in Bulgaria being sent to labor camps, and it only lands one sentence, on the bottom of page 2.

Details about the fate of the Jews in Romania and Bessarabia are once again hidden on page 7 in this August 28, 1941 paper. It talks about how ghettos are being set up in Bessarabia, and how thousands of Jewish people have been murdered in Romania in the last few weeks. It even gives a death toll for each region.

Back in the Warsaw ghetto on September 16, 1941, a high death toll is reported. Yet, this only makes it to the bottom of page 9.