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Remembering the Victims

JL;DR SUMMARY The article recounts the tragic stories of multiple victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, highlighting the devastating personal losses and the desperate efforts of survivors to identify their loved ones. 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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ForvertsIndustrial DisasterTriangle FireViolet ShekhterBenny KursJewish Immigrant StoriesGussie SpuntYetta RosenboymMax FlorinEarly 20th Century America

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"18 year old Benny Kurs of 106 East 10th Street, worked there with his younger sister, who was all of 14 years old."
Rovno, Volyn, Ukraine
"She comes from Rovno, in the Volyn region."
Borisov, Minsk Region, Belarus
"[Borisov was a town in the Minsk region]"

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