Over a century after one of New York City’s deadliest industrial accidents, the names of its victims, most of them women, are being enshrined in steel.
Family members and attendees hold up shirts bearing the names of victims at a ceremony at the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire March 25, 2011 in New York City. The challenge when writing history is to break the glass that separates us from the past. To connect somehow with those who lived before us and turn them back into people — not flat abstractions in funny clothes.
The 146 fire victims — most of them immigrant women from Italy and Eastern Europe — will be restored as actual names of actual people, at the very spot where they passed into history. Their names are cut into the flowing steel of the monument, which — when all the pieces are installed this winter — will stretch like ribbon to ninth-floor windows, then tumble back toward street level, where it will spread its arms to embrace the building where history happened.
Among those artists and activists, the idea of a permanent memorial was born. “After the centennial, we realized it was now or never,” said, the director of labor studies at Hofstra University and president of the all-volunteer Triangle Fire Coalition. High on energy from the commemoration, they commissioned an international competition to design a monument.Meanwhile, my list had come to the attention of a researcher and expert in genealogy named Michael Hirsch.
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