Overview
- Date
-
received:
1945
- Geography
-
found:
Dachau (Concentration camp) after liberation;
Dachau (Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sara I. and W. Rodney Beard
- Contributor
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Subject:
Margaret Murphy
Physical Details
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Armbands
- Object Type
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Armbands (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Red cloth armband with central, black on white swastika design. There is a paper manufacturer's label on the inside of the armband.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)
- Materials
- overall : cloth, paper
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The armband was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by W. Rodney and Sara Beard.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-05-07 12:34:48
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn88289
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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.
Date: 1945-1946
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.
