Touched by Fire
First sentence
"THE MEMORIES of our great war come down to us and will pass on to future generations with more accuracy and more truth-telling illustration than that of any previous struggle," Capt. A. J. Russell declared in 1882, and for that "the world is indebted to the photographic art and a few enterprising and earnest men."...
Description
Escaping the pogroms of Russia and leaving the anti-Semitism in Berlin, Germany for America, fourteen-year-old Miriam and her family seek employment on the Lower East Side in New York, and Miriam becomes a cuff setter at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory where her life is changed by the 1911 factory fire. Miriam, a fourteen-year-old Russian immigrant in 1910, gets a job at the Triangle Shirt Waist Company. As she is finishing work on March 25, 1911, a fire begins in the factory, and she struggles to escape. The plot contains racial slurs.