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Blood-Chilling Details of Saturday’s Destruction

JL;DR SUMMARY In a harrowing account originally published by the Forverts in 1911, the article details the horrific tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ForvertsJewish HistoryLabor RightsTragedyFireWorking ConditionsImmigrant WorkersTriangle Shirtwaist FactorySafety Standards1911

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New York, United States
"On the Greene Street side of the building, one could see a man on the ninth floor running along the windows, lifting one young woman after another up and flinging them downward."

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