Milton Ramoy photograph collection Postwar Germany
Extent and Medium
folders
oversize folder
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Creator(s)
- Milton Ramoy
Biographical History
Milton Ramoy was a member of the United States 576th Ordinance and Ammunition Company.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Milton Ramoy
Sgt. Milton Ramoy filmed the liberation of Germany with his 8mm camera. He donated a copy of the original film as well as a videotape providing additional context to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 1991. The videotape is available in the Film and Video Archive's wild collection. Mr. Ramoy also donated photographs of his travels through postwar Europe, including the liberation of Buchenwald for which he did not have any moving image film, to the Museum's Photo Archive.
Scope and Content
The forty photographs depict Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation in April 1945, corpses at Neunburg vorm Wald, Germany, and German civilians viewing a mass burial site in Tittling, Germany, in 1945.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Soldiers--American--Germany--1940-1950.
- Neunburg vorm Wald (Germany)
- Tittling (Germany)
- Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950.
- Mass burials--Germany--1940-1950.
- Monuments & memorials--Germany--1940-1950.
- Barracks--Germany--1940-1950.
- Prisoners--Germany--1940-1950.
- Cemeteries--Luxembourg--Hamm.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document