Milton Silver photographs

Document | Accession Number: 1993.139.10

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.

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Date: creation: 1945
Language: English
Genre/Form: Photographs.
Extent: 1 folder
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Milton Silver

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Document Creator: Milton Silver
Biography: 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.
System of Arrangement: The Milton Silver photographs are arranged as a single series.
Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Austria--Mauthausen.
Holocaust survivors--Austria--Mauthausen.
Holocaust victims--Austria--Mauthausen.
Corpse removals--Austria--Mauthausen.
Geographic Name: Mauthausen (Austria)
Corporate Name: Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Dr. Milton Silver donated his photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
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The Milton Silver collection consists of seven black and white photographs Silver took during his May 1945 visits to the Mauthausen concentration camp and two daggers he took from local Austrians.