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Remembering the Triangle

by : Staff , ILR School

Steps from where dozens of young immigrant Jewish and Italian women leaped to their deaths when a fire erupted in the locked sweatshop where they sewed blouses, Grace Chu ’26 stood reverently in remembrance of the 146 victims of the Triangle Waist Factory fire. She was among an estimated 2,000 people who gathered in October in Greenwich Village for the Triangle Fire Memorial dedication. The…