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Michael Hirsch

By Michael Hirsch

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Two Families and One Lifeboat

On Friday, April 19, 1912, 10 Jewish survivors of the ill-fated luxury liner RMS Titanic posed for a Forverts photographer in the offices of the Hospitality Society on East Broadway. The sad group included only a few of the 705 survivors who had been rescued by the steamship RMS Carpathia and who had arrived in…

By Michael Hirsch Apr 11, 2012 | 5 min read
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Titan of the Sea Meets Its Match

Nearly a century after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, the stories about how those aboard fared during the ship’s final hours remain as fresh today as they were on the fateful night of April 14, 1912. The luxury ocean liner, helmed by Capt. Edward Smith, was carrying the fabulously wealthy and the steerage poor…

By Michael Hirsch Apr 9, 2012 | 5 min read
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One Person’s Quest To Find and Restore The Graves of the Triangle Fire’s Victims

Scattered among 16 cemeteries around New York they came to rest, the 146 people whose lives were violently cut short 100 years ago in one of the nation’s worst industrial disasters — the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. A few years ago, I set out to see if I could learn who these people were in…

By Michael Hirsch Mar 30, 2011 | 3 min read

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