Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Subtitle
- Postwar Germany
- Date
-
creation:
1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Milton Ramoy
- Collection Creator
- Milton Ramoy
- Biography
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Milton Ramoy was a member of the United States 576th Ordinance and Ammunition Company.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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2 folders
1 oversize folder
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany. Monuments & memorials--Germany--1940-1950. Barracks--Germany--1940-1950. Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950. Mass burials--Germany--1940-1950. Prisoners--Germany--1940-1950. Soldiers--American--Germany--1940-1950. Cemeteries--Luxembourg--Hamm.
- Geographic Name
- Tittling (Germany) Neunburg vorm Wald (Germany)
- Corporate Name
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- 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.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-28 12:51:23
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