Overview
- Date
-
use:
1933-1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Milton Silver
Physical Details
- Classification
-
Weapons
- Category
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Daggers and swords (edged weapons)
- Object Type
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Daggers (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Ceremonial dagger with case and strap; 1a= dagger; 1b case; 1c= strap
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 0.980 inches (2.489 cm)
- Materials
- overall : silver, bone, cloth
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The dagger and case were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by Milton Silver.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:22:11
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn7225
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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.
Dagger and case
Object
Milton Silver photographs
Document
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.
