Dorothy M. Harrison talks about the life of Sara Landau including her unpaid volunteer service in the American Red Cross during WWI
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.
Read
- In Collections
-
Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date Published
-
1983
- Contributors
-
University of Texas at San Antonio. Libraries
- Subjects
-
Landau, Sara, 1890-1986
Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948
American National Red Cross
Women's Overseas Service League. Louisville Unit
World War (1914-1918)
Armistice Day
Hospitals
Military participation--Female
Oral history
Soldiers--Recreation
War work--Red Cross
France--Vannes
- Material Type
-
Sound recordings
Speeches (compositions)
- Language
-
English
- Extent
- 00:09:13
- Holding Institution
-
Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 35101
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b11872651
- Permalink
- https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5jh3h97t