From 2001: Rose Freedman, Last Survivor of Triangle Fire, Dies at 107

She escaped the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, in which 146 of her co-workers perished, and dedicated the rest of her life ...
Untapped Cities

A Moving Memorial to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to Be Unveiled in NYC

The Triangle Fire Memorial has been years in the making. The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition held an international competition to design a memorial in 2013. Out of the nearly 180 submissions sent ...
Orange County Register

113 years after Triangle Fire, worker revolt rises across US

I wonder what my Great Aunt Fannie would think of today’s American workplace, with a percolating revival of its labor movement. On March 25, 1911, Fannie Lansner – the 21-year-old sister of my ...
The New York Times

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)

To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime. He wanted to do something about it. By Maria Cramer Responses to an essay about Nazi objects from ...
Newsday

Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire memorial pays tribute to 146 killed in 1911 fire

Three plaques commemorate the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in Greenwich Village that killed 146 workers in 1911, catalyzing landmark workplace safety laws and transforming the labor movement. But ...
Newsday

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire remembered in New York City as speakers call to fight Trump policies

A commemoration Tuesday to the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory — which killed 146 workers, transformed the American labor movement, inspired modern building codes and brought about ...
The Jewish Exponent

100 Years After Deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, its Jewish and Italian Workers Get a Memorial

(New York Jewish Week) – As Allison and Rebecca Kestenbaum stood in front of a building in Greenwich Village on Wednesday, they were thinking about another set of sisters: their relatives Celia and ...