Nazi armband acquired by a US Army nurse

Object | Accession Number: 2014.299.3

Date: received: 1945
Geography: found: Dachau (Concentration camp) after liberation; Dachau (Germany)
Classification: Identifying Artifacts
Category: Armbands
Object Type: Armbands (lcsh)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sara I. and W. Rodney Beard

Physical Description: Red cloth armband with black on white swaztiki center design. here is a paper manufacture's label on the inside of the armband.
Dimensions: overall : 5.000 x 8.000 in. (12.7 x 20.32 cm.)
Materials: overall : cloth, paper
Contributor: Subject: Margaret Murphy
Topical Term: Military nursing--United States--Biography.
Nurses--United States--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Personal narratives, American.
Corporate Name: United States. Army Nurse Corps--Biography.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The armband was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by W. Rodney and Sara Beard.
Primary Number: 5773
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2018-10-24 14:07:56
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Also in Margaret Murphy collection

The collection consists of labels, a Red Cross patch, and an SS armband and patch, notebooks, and a pass relating to the experiences of Margaret Murphy as a nurse in the Army Nurse Corps, United States Army, during and after World War II, including service at the liberated Dachau concentration camp.

Margaret Murphy papers

Document

Notebook bearing hand-inscribed titled "Dachau Concentration Camp/Nurse Lt. Margaret Murphy A.N.C./116 Evacuation Hospital/Jan-Feb-Mar-April and May 1945," notebook contains post-liberation images [some Signal Corps] labeled on reverse, as well as letter from survivor Jan Vladimir Mericka in the Czech Republic to Murphy in Kentucky, expressing his gratitude, dated 1946; also included is Murphy's Dachau Concentration Camp pass allowing her entry and exit at the camp, a magazine article describing her unit's work, circa 1945.