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(never forget that these were the first "dead peasant" insurance victims)
146 LIVES LOST!
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Adler, Lizzie, 24
Altman, Anna, 16
Ardito, Annina, 25
Bassino, Rose, 31
Benanti, Vincenza, 22
Berger, Yetta, 18
Bernstein, Essie, 19
Bernstein, Jacob, 38
Bernstein, Morris, 19
Billota, Vincenza, 16
Binowitz, Abraham, 30
Birman, Gussie, 22
Brenman, Rosie, 23
Brenman, Sarah, 17
Brodsky, Ida, 15
Brodsky, Sarah, 21
Brucks, Ada, 18
Brunetti, Laura, 17
Cammarata, Josephine, 17
Caputo, Francesca, 17
Carlisi, Josephine, 31
Caruso, Albina, 20
Ciminello, Annie, 36
Cirrito, Rosina, 18
Cohen, Anna, 25
Colletti, Annie, 30
Cooper, Sarah, 16
Cordiano , Michelina, 25
Dashefsky, Bessie, 25
Del Castillo, Josie, 21
Dockman, Clara, 19
Donick, Kalman, 24
Driansky, Nettie, 21
Eisenberg, Celia, 17
Evans, Dora, 18
Feibisch, Rebecca, 20
Fichtenholtz, Yetta, 18
Fitze, Daisy Lopez, 26
Floresta, Mary, 26
Florin, Max, 23
Franco, Jenne, 16
Friedman, Rose, 18
Gerjuoy, Diana, 18
Gerstein, Molly, 17
Giannattasio, Catherine, 22
Gitlin, Celia, 17
Goldstein, Esther, 20
Goldstein, Lena, 22
Goldstein, Mary, 18
Goldstein, Yetta, 20
Grasso, Rosie, 16
Greb, Bertha, 25
Grossman, Rachel, 18
Herman, Mary, 40
Hochfeld, Esther, 21
Hollander, Fannie, 18
Horowitz, Pauline, 19
Jukofsky, Ida, 19
Kanowitz, Ida, 18
Kaplan, Tessie, 18
Kessler, Beckie, 19
Klein, Jacob, 23
Koppelman, Beckie, 16
Kula, Bertha, 19
Kupferschmidt, Tillie, 16
Kurtz, Benjamin, 19
L'Abbate, Annie, 16
Lansner, Fannie, 21
Lauletta, Maria Giuseppa, 33
Lederman, Jennie, 21
Lehrer, Max, 18
Lehrer, Sam, 19
Leone, Kate, 14
Leventhal, Mary, 22
Levin, Jennie, 19
Levine, Pauline, 19
Liebowitz, Nettie, 23
Liermark, Rose, 19
Maiale, Bettina, 18
Maiale, Frances, 21
Maltese, Catherine, 39
Maltese, Lucia, 20
Maltese, Rosaria, 14
Manaria, Maria, 27
Mankofsky, Rose, 22
Mehl, Rose, 15
Meyers, Yetta, 19
Midolo, Gaetana, 16
Miller, Annie, 16
Neubauer, Beckie, 19
Nicholas, Annie, 18
Nicolosi, Michelina, 21
Nussbaum, Sadie, 18
Oberstein, Julia, 19
Oringer, Rose, 19
Ostrovsky , Beckie, 20
Pack, Annie, 18
Panno, Provindenza, 43
Pasqualicchio, Antonietta, 16
Pearl, Ida, 20
Pildescu, Jennie, 18
Pinelli, Vincenza, 30
Prato, Emilia, 21
Prestifilippo, Concetta, 22
Reines, Beckie, 18
Rosen (Loeb), Louis, 33
Rosen, Fannie, 21
Rosen, Israel, 17
Rosen, Julia, 35
Rosenbaum, Yetta, 22
Rosenberg, Jennie, 21
Rosenfeld, Gussie, 22
Rothstein, Emma, 22
Rotner, Theodore, 22
Sabasowitz, Sarah, 17
Salemi, Santina, 24
Saracino, Sarafina, 25
Saracino, Teresina, 20
Schiffman, Gussie, 18
Schmidt, Theresa, 32
Schneider, Ethel, 20
Schochet, Violet, 21
Schpunt, Golda, 19
Schwartz, Margaret, 24
Seltzer, Jacob, 33
Shapiro, Rosie, 17
Sklover, Ben, 25
Sorkin, Rose, 18
Starr, Annie, 30
Stein, Jennie, 18
Stellino, Jennie, 16
Stiglitz, Jennie, 22
Taback, Sam, 20
Terranova, Clotilde, 22
Tortorelli, Isabella, 17
Utal, Meyer, 23
Uzzo, Catherine, 22
Velakofsky, Frieda, 20
Viviano, Bessie, 15
Weiner, Rosie, 20
Weintraub, Sarah, 17
Weisner, Tessie, 21
Welfowitz, Dora, 21
Wendroff, Bertha, 18
Wilson, Joseph, 22
Wisotsky, Sonia, 17
The Kheel Center is indebted to the hard work of independent researcher Michael Hirsch for this list. An experienced genealogist, Mr. Hirsch examined a wide array of vital records and publications and conducted conversations with families of the victims in the creation of this list. More information about the victims' list and its origins can be found here. For questions or comments, please contact us.
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http://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/victimswitnesses/victimslist.html
mountain grammy
(26,626 posts)on Tell Me Everything. He doesn't miss much. Historian Kenneth C. Davis is on the show now. Fantastic.
thank you for the link. Very good site for information on this horrific event.
niyad
(113,388 posts)nolabear
(41,987 posts)Doesnt come up much but women suffer disproportionally from deregulation in jobs, medicine, child issues, and so many other things.
niyad
(113,388 posts)underpants
(182,837 posts)I didn't know they even had that back then.
niyad
(113,388 posts)appalachiablue
(41,147 posts)Frances Perkins witnessed the tragedy and it impacted her work on labor issues, notably as FDR's New Deal Labor Secy.
area51
(11,912 posts)11cents
(1,777 posts)My mother's aunt (or great-aunt)? Was not at work on the day.
PatrickforO
(14,578 posts)subjected to unsafe working conditions.
Then the fire, and they let them burn.
May they rest in peace, and may all who read this thank the unions, because any decent conditions - the 8-hour day, OSHA, workers comp, health and dental care, the surety that you will get paid for hours worked - all these are benefits that honest workers like you and me fought, bled and sometimes died for.
Remember - the fiduciary responsibility of a CEO in a publicly held company is ONLY to increase earnings for shareholders, and any corners they can cut with labor costs, THEY WILL.
This is why we need collective bargaining. This is why we need strong unions.
niyad
(113,388 posts)SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)niyad
(113,388 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This has always haunted me for some reason. Thank you for the link.
niyad
(113,388 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,417 posts)We share a last name....though it is and was a fairly common one.
My grandparents lived and worked in the garment district at the time after leaving Russia in 1903.
A visit to the Tenement Museum in the Lower East Side is pretty powerful. Grab a sandwich at Katz's (I'll have what she's having) Deli!
niyad
(113,388 posts)and thanks for one of my favourite movie lines!!
orangecrush
(19,578 posts)by bastard bosses.
niyad
(113,388 posts)IronLionZion
(45,462 posts)and take us back to a time when people were desperate and impoverished and taken advantage of by unscrupulous assholes.
niyad
(113,388 posts)I guess being a cold-blooded, heartless, money-grubbing thug is their idea of "great".
liberalhistorian
(20,818 posts)(a long time ago, suffice to say!) I have never been able to get over the image of the victims desperately beating on the doors to escape as the fire and smoke were coming right at them, doors that were locked from the outside by the owners and managers to "prevent theft". Their jumping from windows and the roof to escape the fiery flames and choking smoke is another image I can never get out of my mind. The ONLY good thing that came out of it was the changes in policies and laws. And even those had to be fought hard for, a fight which now continues because greed and stomping on the necks of workers and the poor NEVER changes or goes away.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Complete with the locked doors!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire
niyad
(113,388 posts)I fail to understand how those bastard owners could live with themselves afterwards
Skraxx
(2,977 posts)My great (great?) Aunt.
niyad
(113,388 posts)burrowowl
(17,641 posts)peggysue2
(10,833 posts)There were also the Radium Girls, poisoned and dying tragically, many slowly, painfully.
Workplace safety and health regulations were fought over these young lives and premature deaths. For good reason.
Thanks for reminding us.
lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Sad that the same history must be constantly relearned and re-experienced by uninformed citizens.