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Triangle Bosses Arrested On Murder Charge
Originally published in the Forverts, April 12, 1911 Blanck and Harris, the Owners of the Factory Where 146 Workers Were Burned To Death, Are To Be Indicted By The Grand Jury On First Degree Manslaughter —The Maximum Sentence Is Twenty Years in Prison — Bail Set For $25,000 Each — The Coroner’s Jury Investigates Disaster…
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Struggling To Be Heard
At the end of their workshop about women in the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in 2006, scholars Sonja Hedgepeth and Rochelle Saidel encountered some dissent. The presentation, “Beyond Anne Frank: Teaching About Women and the Holocaust,” looked at the ways in which women experienced the Holocaust differently than men did, and included a discussion on…
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The Morgue Is Full of Our Victims!
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts, March 26, 1911 175 Workers Lose Lives in a Burning Shirt Waist Factory The Triangle Waist Company Located on the Top Three Floors of a 10-Story Washington Place building Is Destroyed in Fire — Firefighters’ Ladders Can’t Reach Unfortunate Workers Who Stand at the Windows Seeking an…
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The Funeral of the Unidentified
Originally published in the Forverts, April 6, 1911. A thousand tears spilled at the funeral of the seven unidentified bodies. As long as no one was able to identify the charred-to-cinders departed, the city honored them. Graves were prepared for them at Evergreen Cemetery. And yesterday at 2 p.m., the same time when 120,000 of…
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Half a Million People in Mourning
Originally published by the Forverts on April 6, 1911 In the midst of a downpour, 120,000 men and women participated in the largest march that New York has yet seen. Hundreds of thousands fill the streets. The silence that dominated the ranks made the biggest impression. Hysterical crying when the marchers approached the ruin where…
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Persian Halvah
Persian halvah is not like the regular halvah you are used to. The word halvah refers to several dense and sweet desserts made with nuts or flour. In contrast to the more popular Israeli halvah made of sesame paste, in Iran, halvah is flour based with a hint of rose water. I actually think Persian…
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Chicken with Eggplants
You should have seen how long it took to make this chicken the “authentic” Persian style. Momonbosorgue (my husband’s grandma) taught me this dish and it took us the whole afternoon! She is the sweetest little lady and she really knows her food. I closely watched her while tending to this dish and measured her…
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Remembering the Victims
Originally published in the Forverts, March 27, 1911 She Had Picked Out Everything For Her Engagement Photo With Her Fiancé Parents of the 21 year old Violet Shekhter thought that shortly they would lead their daughter to the khupe [wedding canopy], but instead they lead her corpse home. In a few weeks hence she was…
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Only A Muted Violin is All that Remains of Them
Originally published in the Forverts, March 29 ,1911 A fiddle hangs on the wall, but the hand which played it is lying somewhere, a piece of coal. Among the 30 bodies in the morgue it has not been found. Let us go to the second room in 78 Clinton Street, where the family Rosen lived,…
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What a Reporter from the Forverts Saw at the Morgue
Originally published in the Forverts, March 27, 1911 The sun shines down from a clear sky and a fresh warm breeze blows. But the entire area around 26th Street, where the morgue is located, is in grief and mourning. The blocks around First Avenue through Second and Third Avenues are a turbulent sea of people,…
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A Closet with Wedding Clothes Is All That Is Left of Yetta Goldstein
Originally published in the Forverts, March 28, 1911 A closet full of wedding clothes. Standing by the closet, as if beside a holy Torah ark, are Yetta Goldstein’s two brothers, choking on their tears. They hug each other. One of them yells out: “If there was even one little bone left for us to identify…
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