Map Ethnografische Karte Polens, 1926 Eugeniusz Romer, Poland's most important national geographer, presents the distribution of ethnic groups in the Second Polish Republic based on the results of the 1921 census.
Map Ethnographic Map of Russians, Poles, and Lithuanians In this map, published around 1919-1920, the Russian imperial-oriented intellectual Timofej Florinskij presents his ethnographic view of the former Tsarist Empire. In his cartography of the southwestern territories of the Tsarist Empire, Ukrainians and Belarusians are incorporated into the Russian nation as “Russians,” while the Polish nation is depicted as small as possible.
Map Ethnographic Overview Map of Eastern Europe Stepan Rudnyc'kyj also included an ethnographic map of Eastern Europe in his Ukrainian regional studies, which clearly shows that he wanted to focus particularly on the ethnic diversity of the Russian Empire.
Map Ethnographische Übersichtskarte der Ukraina Stepan Rudnyc'kyj's ‘Carte rouge’ of the Ukrainian ‘ethnographic territory’ represents the spatial conception of Ukraine that Ukrainian politicians wish to communicate during wartime.
Essay Excerpt from Albrecht Penck's Account of Ukraine The German anthropogeographer Penck places Ukraine on the mental map of German imperialism; here, he considers not only its geopolitical relevance, but also, among other things, its exploitation for grain.
Essay Excerpt from Stepan Rudnyc'kyj, “On the Foundations of Ukrainian Nationalism” The Ukrainian geographer Stepan Rudnyc‘kyj, who increasingly wrote political treatises during the First World War, presented an ideological text on Ukrainian nationalism and its necessary nature in the 1920s (first published in 1921).
Essay Excerpt from the Autobiography of the Ukrainian Historian and First President Mychajlo Hruševs'kyj This academic autobiography describes the eventful fate of the historian and politician in times of war and revolution.
Diary Excerpts from the diary of Myron Korduba The diary of this leading Western Ukrainian politician shows the rise of the Ukrainian Military Organization and the Polish reaction from the perspective of Ukrainian politics.
Photograph Filmstill aus Propagandafilm „Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet.”
Flyer First Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council In its first statement (“Universal”) to the Ukrainian people, the Ukrainian Central Council announced regional autonomy.
Newspaper article From the Series of Articles “Pieracki's Murderers on Trial” Excerpts from the series of articles illustrate Polish reporting on the trial against the OUN.
Newspaper article From the early days of Bar Kochba Memoirs are an extremely important type of source for Jewish history in view of the many ways of transmission destroyed by the Shoah and war. This source is a memoir by Herman Jalowicz about the founding of the Jewish gymnastics club Bar Kochba, which he wrote down in September 1938 during the desperate situation of the Jewish Germans. 1938 marked the 40th anniversary of the founding of Bar Kochba Berlin and despite the crisis of the present, a supplement to the magazine "Der Makkabi. Organ des deutschen Makkabi Kreises" on September 15, 1938 with the title "40 Jahre Bar Kochba - Hakoah. 40 Jahre Makkabi" with greetings from the Makkabi World Federation, the Zionist Association for Germany and the board of the Jewish Community of Berlin.
Newspaper article Galician-Bukovinian District The detailed report on the Galician-Bukovinian circle of the Jewish gymnastics association paints a broad picture of the gymnastics and sports movement in Galicia, its ideas and problems.
Map Geological Overview Map of Ukraina Stepan Rudnyc'kyj seeks to anchor Ukraine on the mental map of Europe with his maps. This also includes presenting it as a physical-geographical, geological and climatological entity.
Letter Graz-Thalerhof Internment Camp In the first few months after the outbreak of the First World War, numerous Ruthenians were arrested as alleged spies or shot by summary execution. Several thousand civilians were deported by the army to the interior of the Reich
Picture gallery Hinterland Photography - Ukraine 1918 Ukrainian folk life through the soldier's lens – this gallery shows examples of typical hinterland photography.