Personal Narrative 3D Object Manuscript/Mixed Material Photo, Print, Drawing Mimi Lesser Collection
Veterans History Project Service Summary:
- War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
- Location of Service: Germany; Czechoslovakia; Paris, France; New York
- Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/11904
In 1944, New York commercial artist Mimi Korach decided to do her part for the war effort by volunteering to work in a Merchant Seamen's Club, sketching portraits of lonely servicemen. A USO official suggested she go to local veterans hospitals to create sketches of patients that could be mailed to their distant families. Her next stop was a two-year tour of duty doing the same in Europe for GIs recuperating in evacuation hospitals. Korach, a short, dark-haired woman, teamed with another artist, Ann, a taller blonde (they were nicknamed "Blondie and Blackie"), traveling around Europe even after the fighting stopped. They sketched hundreds of servicemen as well as street scenes in occupied Germany and other devastated countries.
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About this Item
Title
- Mimi Lesser Collection
Names
- Lesser, Mimi
State of Residence at Time of Collection Donation
- New York (State)
Headings
- - Lesser, Mimi
- - World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal Narratives
- - United Service Organizations (USO) -- Personal Narratives
Repository
- Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Gender
- Female
Status
- civilian
Service History
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World War, 1939-1945
- Location of Service: Germany; Czechoslovakia; Paris, France; New York
- Military Status: civilian
Materials
- Manuscript: Creative works [2 items] -- Handwritten document (collected 1945-08-09)
- Manuscript: Correspondence [60 items] -- (collected 1945-1947)
- Manuscript: Clippings [1 item] -- (collected 1945-09)
- Manuscript: Mixed (Multiple types of manuscripts) [3 items] -- (collected unknown)
- Manuscript: Memoir [1 item] -- (collected unknown)
- Manuscript: Correspondence [1 item] -- (collected 1942-1943)
- Artifact: Artifact [1 item] -- (collected unknown)
- Photograph: Original photographic print [690 items] -- Photographs (collected 1944-1946)
- Photograph: Original photographic print [6 items] -- Photographs (collected 1945)
- Photograph: Original photographic print [34 items] -- Photographs (collected 1945)
Collection Number
- AFC/2001/001/11904
Online Format
- image