Robert Glover Holocaust Photographs

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0441

Staff Only

Scope and Content

The photographs in this collection record scenes from the Allied offensive in Germany and the encounter of the Allied forces with Holocaust survivors. Six of them show corpses and former concentration camps inmates, survivors of the Holocaust. One is a picture of the Dachau concentration camp’s watchtower and the barbed wire around the camp. There is a picture depicting a crematorium oven with open door. On four photographs soldiers can be seen, one depicts a plane wreck, two show bombed cities, one of which is identified as Ulm on verso, and there is one photograph of tankers lining up on the side of a street. As the attached identification numbers next to some of the pictures indicate, these pictures can also be found in the online photograph collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum.

Dates

Creation: circa 1945

Creator

Glover, Robert, 1926- (Person)

Access

The collection is open for research.

Biographical/Historical Note

Robert Glover was conscripted to the US Army during World War II and he was honorably discharged in 1946 from 15th Army, 106th Division in the rank of technical sgt 4th grade. He served in Germany at the end of the War, where most of the photographs in this collection were taken. Robert Glover’s wartime experience based on his letters to home is the subject of the book