Threads and flames

Description:

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.

subjects: Immigrants in fiction,  Jews,  Immigrants,  Fire, 1911,  Fiction,  Jews in fiction,  Triangle Shirtwaist Company in fiction,  Triangle Shirtwaist Company,  History,  Sick,  Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911) fast (OCoLC)fst01355168,  Juvenile fiction,  Exploitation,  Voyages and travels,  Despair,  Shtetls,  Historical fiction,  Labor movement,  Sisters,  Hope,  Fiction, historical, general,  Jews, fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction

Places: United States,  New York (N.Y.)

Times: 1898-1951