(US-NYC) Jewish Genealogist Michael Hirsch Remembers the Victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911

[Jan Meisels Allen janmallen@att.net]

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Jewish genealogist Michael Hirsch visits the graves of the victims of the
March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire. Until September 11, 2001
this was the worst workplace disaster in the United States. He visits the
graves of the forty-five Christians and 101 Jews who perished in the fire in
16 New York City cemeteries in the New York City area. He also visits their
family members, the family of the surviving victims and the family of the
owners of the factory. The majority of those workers were young immigrant
women, Jewish and Italian residents of the Lower East Side and Greenwich
Village. Some died of smoke inhalation and burns. Some fell to their deaths
when the fire escape collapsed while others leaped to their death. While
visiting one of the new York City cemeteries by checking checked a list
against graves and located more victims of the fire: four men and four rows
of women and girls. He has discovered more victims and identify them and
identify unidentified victims.

An article in The New York Review of Books gives details of some of the
victims and more about Hirsch. The article may be read at:
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/08/31/the-triangle-shirtwaist-memorialist

To read more about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire see the Smithsonian
Magazine article at:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/uncovering-the-history-of-the-triangle-shirtwaist-fire-124701842/
[or https://tinyurl.com/y7ph8qxo --Mod.]

Thank you to Saul Issroff for sharing the article with us.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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