Window Cleaner Jan Demczur’s Work Shoes, World Trade Center
date: label: Date made
content: 1990s
notes: label: Description
content: Demczur was wearing this leather scabbard for holding a squeegee.
label: Description
content: When a hijacked airplane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, six men, including Polish immigrant window cleaner Jan Demczur, found themselves trapped in an express elevator at the 50th floor. Thinking quickly, Demczur and the others pried open the elevator doors and used this squeegee handle to cut their way through the drywall of the elevator shaft. They squeezed through the hole in the wall, fleeing from the building just minutes before the tower fell.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: worn
content: United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: related event
content: Attack on the World Trade Center
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
label: See more items in
content: September 11
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jan Demczur
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0018.04
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0018.04
label: accession number
content: 2002.0018
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scabbard
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 6 cm x 8 cm; 6 11/16 in x 2 3/8 in x 3 1/8 in