Dorothy M. Harrison talks about the life of Sara Landau including her unpaid volunteer service in the American Red Cross during WWI

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Description:

Dorothy M. Harrison describes the efforts of the Louisville Unit of the Women's Overseas Service League to collect oral histories and then talks about the life of Sara Landau who served in the American Red Cross as an unpaid volunteer during World War One. Harrison reads from an interview Landau gave in which she talks about answering telephones and carrying messages in Paris and working in a hospital in Vannes writing letters for the wounded and running a library, and a game room. Landau also describes a visit to the hospital by General Pershing and how she felt on Armistice Day in November 1918.

Date Issued:

1983-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

France, Vannes, France, and Vannes

Subject Topic:

World War, 1914-1918, Participation, Female, World War, 1914-1918, War work, Red Cross, World War, 1914-1918, Hospitals, Soldiers, Recreation, Armistice Day, and Oral history

Subject Name:

Landau, Sara, 1890-1986, Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948, American National Red Cross, Women's Overseas Service League, and Louisville Unit

Subject Genre:

Biography

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5m418