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Threads and flames

by Esther M. Friesner

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After recovering from typhus, thirteen-year-old Raisa leaves her Polish shtetl for America to join her older sister, and goes to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.

Immigrants in fictionJewsImmigrantsFire, 1911FictionJews in fictionTriangle Shirtwaist Company in fictionTriangle Shirtwaist CompanyHistorySickTriangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911) fast (OCoLC)fst01355168Juvenile fiction