us-005578-irn566755
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Helga Freeman McNair (1915-1997) was born on 1 October 1915 in St. Paul, Minnesota. She went on to attend Vassar College and graduated with a degree in art history in 1938. After graduation, Helga and a friend volunteered to serve with the Red Cross in Europe. Helga's first deployment was to England where she experienced the VI-VII rocket attacks. Later Helga was appointed to work in the canteen that served Patton’s 3rd Army. While with the Red Cross Helga participated in and photographed relief work that followed the advance of Allied forces, including at Buchenwald following liberation. After the war Helga traveled between the United States and Europe for several years. Later Helga married H. Harvey McNair who was himself a veteran of WWII. The couple settled in Minnesota and raised a family.
date: circa 1945
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 701
has or had subject: 43
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn566755
record resource extent: oversize folder 1
record resource structure: The Helga Freeman McNair photographs are arranged as a single series.
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Consists of two loose album pages of photographs depicting Germany in the immediate postwar period, including scenes of Buchenwald shortly after liberation, German prisoners of war, and civilians.
title: Helga Freeman McNair photographs