Rose Rosenfeld Freedman Essay

Rose Rosenfeld Freedman was born March 27, 1893 in Vienna (Wien), Austria. Her and her family moved to a small apartment in New York. At 16, her sister Molly suggested that instead of helping around the house, she should get an actual job. Rose got a job at the local Triangle Waist Company on the 9th floor of the Asch Building. Her job was to operate a button-attaching machine. Just almost 2 years later, Rose was two days away from turning 18 on March 25, 1911. Rose was working on the 9th floor as usual when the fire broke out at 4:40 pm.

Considering Rose was on the 9th floor she rushed to the 10th to the executive offices where she took a smoldering staircase to the roof. From there, a fireman helped her onto the nearby building’s roof. As she walked down to the street, she stopped at each stoop to cry. ''Girls in shirtwaists, which were aflame, went flying out of the building so that you saw these young women literally ablaze flying out of the windows,'' she said in a Public Broadcasting System
You couldn’t be older than 50 though. Rose had a rather youthful appearance that helped her get this job. "Of course it was a lie, but they didn't know it was a lie,". She worked here until 79. Then in 1995 she moved to Los Angeles to be near her children. A few short years later, Rose said in a documentary "To me, 106 is a number,", and "I lived that long, not only on account of my genes, but on account of my attitude. You've got to stand up for yourself. Am I right?".

Rose Freedman died February 15, 2001 in Los Angeles at 107. Overall Rose was a real trooper. She made it through one of the most tragic events in history, killing 146 people. She also lived to see and hear about WWI and WWII. By the time she passed, she had mastered 7 languages and was still taking classes for Spanish. I guess you could say Rose Freedman had a tragic, cursed life, or you could say she had a courageous, eventful