Irene Halmi photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Irene Halmi
Biographical History
Irene Halmi was born in 1921 in Palmerton, PA, to Lajos and Julia Nemeth Halmi. She had three sisters and three brothers. She graduated from the Palmerton Hospital School of Nursing. During World War II, she was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Nursing Corps in both in the US and in the European Theater. Dachau concentration camp was liberated by the United States Army on April 29, 1945. The 127th Evacuation Hospital, the unit with which Irene served, arrived on May 2, 1945, to assess and to care for the thousands of former inmates of the just liberated camp. The three story building occupied by the hospital personnel was previously the headquarters for the German SS [Schutzstaffel, Protection Squadrons] unit of the camp. A nearby one story building housed the patient care facility. After leaving the military, Irene received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in 1950. She returned to Palmerton and resumed her career as a nurse. She died, age 91, on August 14, 2012.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Irene Halmi
The collection arrived at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 9, 2007 from Irene Halmi.
Scope and Content
Four post-war photograhs of the Dachau concentration camp. Irene Halmi, a nurse with the Army Nursing Corps poses in one photographs.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged as a single series.