Irene Halmi collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519127
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Photograph of Irene Halmi [donor] in front of the former SS barracks in the Dachau concentration camp, where American medical personnel were housed upon arrival and a photocopy of the Dachau concentration camp visitor pass; issued to the donor in May 1945.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519128
• English
• overall: Height: 6.380 inches (16.205 cm) | Width: 3.870 inches (9.83 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Drawing commemorating the liberation of Dachau concentration camp created by Fred Rudkowski, a former prisoner. It depicts a lookout tower and barracks at the camp. Rudkowski entrusted the drawing on his departure from the camp in July 1945 to one of his nurses, Irene Halmi, in the US Army hospital where he had recovered from the inhumane conditions he had endured as an inmate. Lieutenant Halmi was a nurse in the 127th Evacuation Hospital which arrived in Dachau on May 2, 1945, soon after its liberation on April 29 by American troops.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519129
• English
• overall: Height: 7.880 inches (20.015 cm) | Width: 6.620 inches (16.815 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Drawing of Dachau concentration camp created by Fred Rudkowski, a former prisoner. It depicts several tall pine trees, a street, and buildings. The three story building had formerly housed the German SS unit and now was used to house hospital personnel; the one story building became a patient unit. When he left the camp n July 1945, Rudkowski entrusted the drawing to one of his nurses, Irene Halmi, in the US Army hospital where he had recovered from the inhumane conditions he endured as an inmate. Halmi thought the drawing significant because of what it did not show – the barbed wire behind...