Margaret Murphy papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Margaret Murphy
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sara I. and W. Rodney Beard
Funding Note: The accessibility of this collection was made possible by the generous donors to our crowdfunded Save Their Stories campaign.
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by W. Rodney and Sara Beard.
Scope and Content
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.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Mr. Rodney Beard
People
- Margaret Murphy
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Military nursing.
- Nurses.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document