Rose Freedman, the last survivor of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York that killed 146 people, many of them immigrant Jewish women, died in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 15 at the age of 107. The fire, in which many girls and women jumped to their deaths from eight- and ninth-story windows, focused attention on poor working conditions and spurred the U.S. labor movement.
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