Milton Silver photographs
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Milton Silver
Biographical History
Dr. Milton Silver served with the 11th Armored Division during World War II. He visited the Mauthausen concentration camp twice: once as a liberator among the first group of American servicemen to enter the camp and later as part of a medical detail.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Milton Silver
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Dr. Milton Silver donated his photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993.
Scope and Content
The Milton Silver photographs consist of seven black and white photographs Silver took during his May 1945 visits to the Mauthausen concentration camp. The photographs depict emaciated Holocaust survivors, rows and piles of murdered victims, and local Austrian residents forced to remove victims onto a truck.
System of Arrangement
The Milton Silver photographs are arranged as a single series.
People
- Milton Silver
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--Austria--Mauthausen.
- Holocaust victims--Austria--Mauthausen.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Austria--Mauthausen.
- Mauthausen (Austria)
- Corpse removals--Austria--Mauthausen.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.