Triangle Shirtwaist Fire victims

[niyad]

(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]

1. Just heard this mentioned by John Fuglesang

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]

2. Thank you for this excellent information. will have to watch it.

[nolabear]

3. So deregulation is a bad idea?

Doesn’t come up much but women suffer disproportionally from deregulation in jobs, medicine, child issues, and so many other things.

[niyad]

5. a most excellent point, thank you!

[underpants]

4. Damn I didn't know they had dead peasant insurance

I didn't know they even had that back then.

[niyad]

6. I will have to go back and look up the exact figures, but the owners made out like bandits.

[appalachiablue]

23. Didn't realize Triangle owners were paid on Dead Peasants policies, horror.

Frances Perkins witnessed the tragedy and it impacted her work on labor issues, notably as FDR's New Deal Labor Secy.

[area51]

7. Link to American Experience episode on Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1itk1p

[11cents]

8. A relative worked there.

My mother's aunt (or great-aunt)? Was not at work on the day.

[PatrickforO]

9. Honest workers, exploited for dirt wages by management, and

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.

[C Moon]

18. +1000

[niyad]

24. YES!!!!

[SunSeeker]

10. K & R for exposure.

[niyad]

25. thank you.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Kicking for later reading!

This has always haunted me for some reason. Thank you for the link.

[niyad]

26. you are most welcome.

[Thunderbeast]

12. One of the victims may be a relative.

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]

27. thank you for the mention of the Tenement Museum (did not know).

and thanks for one of my favourite movie lines!!

[orangecrush]

13. cold blooded mass murder

by bastard bosses.

[niyad]

28. exactly

[IronLionZion]

14. There are people who want to make America great again

and take us back to a time when people were desperate and impoverished and taken advantage of by unscrupulous assholes.

[niyad]

29. well, make themselves great in their own eyes, anyway.

I guess being a cold-blooded, heartless, money-grubbing thug is their idea of "great".

[liberalhistorian]

15. I've known about this since I was a child

(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]

16. Happened again in '91

Complete with the locked doors!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire

[niyad]

30. those images haunt me as well.

I fail to understand how those bastard owners could live with themselves afterwards

[Skraxx]

17. Miller, Annie, 16

My great (great?) Aunt.

[niyad]

31. I am so very sorry for your family's loss.

[burrowowl]

19. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[peggysue2]

20. Yes, this was a horrible event

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]

21. ...

[JI7]

22. Many were the immigrants from those days, largely jewish and Italian

[guillaumeb]

32. Recommended.

Sad that the same history must be constantly relearned and re-experienced by uninformed citizens.

[niyad]

33. it is appalling that some do not learn from the past, at the expense of others.