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Two poems by Rosenfeld translated from Yiddish into English by Alice Stone Blackwell (in English) translation of Rosenfeld's Requiem for the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, published in the Jewish Daily Forward; Guide to the Papers of Morris Rosenfeld, held at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York
Zito had been working as an elevator operator at Triangle Waist Company in Manhattan for six months when the fire broke out at the factory. On March 25, 1911, at approximately 4:40 pm on Saturday as the workday was ending, a fire flared up in a scrap bin under one of the cutters' tables at the northeast corner of the 8th floor. [ 4 ]
Sholem Asch's 1946 novel East River (ISBN 978-1-4326-1999-2) tells the story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire through the eyes of an Irish girl who was working at the factory at a time of the fire. The Triangle Fire by Leon Stein, 1963 (ISBN 978-0-8014-7707-2) Fragments from the Fire: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25 ...
In 2022, she and Mary Anne Trasciatti of the Triangle Fire Coalition, [6] published Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The book contains nineteen essays that document the 25 March 1911 fire that killed 146 (mostly female) workers in Manhattan's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. [7]
The New York Times calls it "An enthralling chronicle".. Publishers Weekly states "Von Drehle's engrossing account, which emphasizes the humanity of the victims and the theme of social justice, brings one of the pivotal and most shocking episodes of American labor history to life".
In 1666, most of London turned to ashes, including over 13,000 homes. In an 1845 theater fire in China, 1,670 died. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist. In 50 BC the Library of Alexandria burned. In ...
The Triangle Fire Memorial is a memorial at the Brown Building in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. [1] It commemorates the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 workers, primarily Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls, and is considered a catalyst in the American labor rights movement.
Plans to rebuild a factory that was destroyed by a fire last year have been submitted. The premises on the Atlas Trading Estate on Cross Street in Bradley, Wolverhampton, was devastated by the ...