Title: Touched by fire
Description: Escaping the pogroms of Russia and leaving the anti-Semitism in Berlin, Germany for America, fourteen-year-old Miriam and her family seek employment on the Lower East Side in New York, and Miriam becomes a cuff setter at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory where her life is changed by the 1911 factory fire.

Miriam, a fourteen-year-old Russian immigrant in 1910, gets a job at the Triangle Shirt Waist Company. As she is finishing work on March 25, 1911, a fire begins in the factory, and she struggles to escape. The plot contains racial slurs.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Immigrants, Fire, 1911, Fiction, Triangle Shirtwaist Company, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Children's fiction, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction, Ukraine, fiction, Pogroms, Jews, Antisemitism, History, Emigration and immigration, Young adult fiction, Social conditions
Places: Ukraine, New York (State), New York