Preston Hill collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Connie Mabry
Connie Mabry donated her father's collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2011. A videocassette included in the collection of Mr. Raymond Buch narrating Mauthausen liberation footage and photography was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library.
Scope and Content
Consists of 53 photographs from the collection of Preston Hill, a member of the United States Third Army, who participated in the liberation of Mauthausen. Includes photographs of Mauthausen after liberation, a death march which Mr Hill's unit liberated, original photographs and commercial images he took from a German soldier, and additional copyprint images of liberation. Also includes a brief written narrative of Mr. Hill's experiences.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Army, 3rd
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Austria.
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
- Personal narratives.