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A |     NEW YORK -- If people really looked for history at the New York City building where the Triangle Shirtwaist factory once existed, they could find it. There are plaques pointing out that it was the site of a horrific fire in 1911 that became a catalyst in the American labor movement's fight for workplace safety protections.But for some, a few words on a wall aren't nearly enough to honor the fire's 146 victims.So after years of effort, the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition on Wednesday is dedicating a new memorial that has no chance of being overlooked.A giant steel ribbon with the names of those who died in the disaster, predominantly women and girls, has been installed running horizontally from one corner of the building. Underneath it, a reflective panel shows the stenciled names as well as quotes from people who were there, describing the mayhem. In the coming weeks, a vertical steel column will be added to the corner to span almost the entire height of the building, a reference to how high up the victims were stuck.It’s the story of desperate immigrant women, mostly Jewish and Italian, who were trapped by a door that was locked because there were no workplace safety rules that said it couldn’t be. Some jumped to their deaths from the windows to avoid the flames.“What they will see is a memorial that tries to build into the object itself the history of the fire, a history of working women, a history of Italians and Jews, a history of tragedy, but then also a history of change,” said Mary Anne Trasciatti, a Hofstra University professor and president of the coalition.The victims were close to the end of their working day on March 25, 1911, when a fire started on the eighth floor of the clothing factory, which took up the top floors of a building now owned by New York University.Frantic workers tried to get out as the flames spread to the ninth and 10th floors, some scrambling to get into an elevator, others heading for the roof. But others who tried to get past a door to escape found it locked, trapping them inside. At a trial of the factory’s owners afterward, some said the door had been kept locked on purpose, over theft concerns.Firefighters responded quickly. But their ladders were too short to get to the topmost floors.Horrified witnesses in the crowd watched as workers leapt from the windows. Among those bystanders was the late Frances Perkins, already an anti-poverty advocate trying to change workplace conditions, and who became even more dedicated after what she saw that day.“It really started her in her push for ‘we have to treat workers better,’” said Ileen DeVault, professor of labor history at Cornell University.Some of her words recollecting the day are part of the memorial, running along the reflective panel. “Every one of them was killed, everybody who jumped was killed.”Perkins would be part of a state commission that put a series of safety rules in place in New York that were emulated elsewhere, and later became an integral part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s cabinet as his secretary of labor. She pushed for policies like minimum wage, workers compensation, and old age pensions.One of the names on the memorial will be that of Rosie Weiner, who died in the blaze, but whose sister and fellow factory worker, Katie Weiner, made it out alive.Later, Weiner would recount how she grabbed an elevator cable to make her escape. Today, her great-niece, Suzanne Pred Bass, is on the board of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. Growing up, Bass knew her great-aunt had lived through the fire, but it wasn’t until years later that she heard about Rosie.Bass’ mother remembered accompanying her mother as a small child to the pier where the victims' bodies were taken after the fire.“She never forgot that, she was 4 years old and I can only imagine how how scary and awful,” Bass said.Memorial designers Richard Joon Yoo and Uri Wegman wanted to find a way for modern-day people to connect with the fire and its legacy, they said. The public was invited a few years ago to contribute pieces of fabric that were joined together in a 300-foot (91-meter) “Collective Ribbon." That ribbon’s design was then etched onto the memorial steel that rises up toward the top of the building.It was important to make that connection between past and present because issues of labor, workplace protections, and how workers are treated are still far from settled in the country and the world, Yoo and Wegman said.“Everything that it talks about with women workers, immigration, labor, it’s these touch points that just keep on flaring up over and over and over again,” Yoo said, pointing out that industrial disasters, at garment factories and elsewhere, still happen around the globe.The two came up with the design for the memorial about a decade ago. It is coming to fruition, with a capital budget of about $3 million, during a year of labor activism in some U.S. industries, with strikes by auto workers, hospital staff, film and television writers and screen actors.It just shows that the Triangle Shirtwaist fire still has lessons to impart, Bass said.“We forget a tragedy like this at our own peril,” she said. “We have the same issues, immigrant issues, safe working condition issues, abuse of women in the workplace issues. It’s not like any of these issues are all fixed."。    童言稚语          孩子的一百种语言          《儿童的一百种语言》中说到：“孩子有一百种语言，一百双手，一百个想法，一百种思考、游戏、说话的方式，一百种倾听、惊奇、爱的方式，一百种歌唱与了解的喜悦。”世界的模样在儿童的眼中，一定也有一百种，他们用眼睛发现，用画笔描绘，用词句记录……于是这个世界因为孩子们的“童言稚语”变得格外温柔与美好！          让我们一起来听听关于新年的童言稚语吧！                    01          托小班          米甜：新年有很多人。         佩泽：新年会放烟花。         米甜：小朋友一起手拉手看烟花。                   格格：你知道什么是元旦吗？     鲁梓伊：就是圆圆的鸡蛋啊     格格：不是不是，元旦就是新年，新年太阳公公都不用睡觉的。那我们是不是也可以不午睡啦？                    花生：今天我们在教室里拍新年照，小朋友们都穿着红色的衣服，老师拿着相机咔嚓咔嚓，照片里面有我和爸爸妈妈做的红纸灯笼，粘土糖葫芦……          1          2025                                                  02          中班          倪煦杨：过年挂的红灯笼就像热气球一样，我想坐着会飞的灯笼去找月亮姐姐，问问她新年要不要也吃饺子。         铱铱：我也想去，我还想去把天空变成一个大糖果屋，这样下的雪都是棉花糖，新年的每一天都可以甜甜的！          优优：新年我们要做什么呢？          悦悦：新年要买新衣服，我最喜欢红红的衣服。

B |          优优：那我们一起做一件新衣服吧，画上我们最喜欢的小花。

C |          悦悦：好呀，那穿在身上就像在花园一样。         溜溜：颜颜，你觉得新年是什么颜色的呢？          颜颜：新年当然是红色的啦！          小二：妈妈新年会带我剪红色的窗花，很漂亮呢！          颜颜：哇！我也很喜欢剪窗花呢，你可以教我吗？          小二：当然可以啦！我们一起剪吧！          溜溜：我也要剪，我也要剪！                              新年祝福                                        03          大班          心怡：我希望新年能下一场红包、糖果雨。

D |          咪哆：我希望新年全家一起吃饺子的时候把照片拍下来。                   1                    瑶瑶：过年你最开心的事是什么？          暖暖：我最开心的是有很多好吃的。         瑶瑶：除了好吃的，我还喜欢大红包~我可以用来买好吃的，好玩的                    汤圆：新年，我闻到了甜甜的香味，是糖葫芦的香味。

E |     小鲤鱼：糖葫芦是水果串在一起，彩色的很好看。    丫丫：我们做的糖葫芦有星星形状、雪人形状，星星是用杨桃做的，雪人是用草莓和香蕉组合的。    萱萱：我觉得糖葫芦酸酸甜甜的很好吃！          熹熹：糖葫芦脆脆的，一口下去嘎嘣脆，在幼儿园里吃到糖葫芦真是太幸福了。                   1          2025                              童言稚语                    孩子们用自己的视角诠释着对世界的理解，用独特的语言表达、分享自己的发现。让我们一起尊重孩子自己的表达方式，聆听孩子的童言趣语。                   END                    文稿｜方玉玲          照片｜各班教师          一审｜王奕心          二审｜杨柳倩          三审｜袁媛。

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