Arthur Mayers photograph collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Arthur Mayers
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Arthur Mayers donated the Arthur Mayers photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.
Scope and Content
The Arthur Mayers photograph collection consists of nine vintage copy prints of Buchenwald concentration camp at the time of liberation, including images of the gallows, bear pit, crematorium, and camp survivors.
System of Arrangement
The Arthur Mayers photograph collection is arranged in the single series.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust victims--Germany.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Crematoriums--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
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