Margaret Murphy collection

Identifier: irn34623
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn34623

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by W. Rodney and Sara Beard.

Scope and Content

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.

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Margaret Murphy papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn88285
- English
- 1945-1946
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
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.
SS badge acquired by a US Army nurse
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn88288
- English
- 1945
- overall: | Diameter: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Nazi armband acquired by a US Army nurse
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn88289
- English
- 1945
- overall: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Red Cross badge acquired by a US Army nurse
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn88290
- English
- overall: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago

Margaret Murphy collection

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Margaret Murphy papers

SS badge acquired by a US Army nurse

Nazi armband acquired by a US Army nurse

Red Cross badge acquired by a US Army nurse