Nazi armband acquired by a US Army nurse
- 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
-
Record last modified: 2020-09-15 08:26:22
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn88289
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.