Biographical Sketch Ideas: Holocaust journalists (in alphabetical order)
Frederick Birchall – Berlin correspondent for New York Times.
Margaret Bourke-White - Photographer and first woman correspondent to work in a combat zone during
World War II. She was in Moscow when the Germans invaded and travelled around Germany as the war
ended in 1945, where she photographed, among others, the Buchenwald concentration camp.
S. Miles Bouton – reporter for Baltimore Sun during 1930s. Had come originally in 1911 with
Associated Press.
Ivan Greenberg – Served as editor of the UK-based Jewish Chronicle before and during World War II.
Ruth Gruber – A photojournalist who wavered between government and news jobs, photographed 1944
Holocaust refugees coming from Europe to the U.S.
Joseph Harsch – reporter for Christian Science Monitor who arrived in Berlin in October 1939. Wrote At
the Hinge of History.
Noah Kliger – Auschwitzsurvivor, covered the Eichmann trial and then served as a longtime Israeli
journalist .
Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker – correspondent for International News Service, then Philadelphia Public
Ledger and New York Evening Post. Author of multiple books.
Louis Lochner – AP Berlin bureau chief. Wrote several books during and after WWII
Edgar Ansel Mowrer – Berlin correspondent for Chicago Daily News.
Ettore Ovazza–Jewish/Fascist journalist and Mussolini ally. Despite his allegiance, he and his family met
a bad end with the German occupation of Italy.
Jules Sauerwein – Correspondent for Paris Soir during the war, and also served a stringer for NY Times.
Had a reputation among some as a sympathizer for the Nazis.
Sigrid Schultz – Chicago Tribune’s chief correspondent for Central Europe in 1926 and who stayed in
Berlin until 1941. Later wrote Germany Will Try it Again during WWII.
Dorothy Thompson – Wife of Sinclair Lewis who was in Berlin for a time in 1920s, and interviewing
Hitler for Cosmopolitan in 1931. Published book I Saw Hitler! (1932)
Karl Henry von Wiegand – foreign correspondent for Hearst publications.