Victim of the General Slocum Disaster - age 9 years old, death cert # 3080 Bronx
The best, by far, work about the Slocum during that time came in Jeff Kisselhoff's 1989 work You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan From the 1890s to World War II. Among the book's many highlights was an interview with survivor Edna Doering, who gave an exquisitely detailed account of the nightmare that claimed most of her family. Edna escaped easily from the General Slocum, but her brother Gustav, 9, and sister, Ida, 11, died in the river. Her badly burned mother was brought home to die a protracted death in her own apartment, during the course of which, Edna recalled, she called for the two children who died, and did not understand why they would not come to her. Gustav was recovered quickly, but Ida was missing for a time, and when she was found her body was brought back to the family apartment in a coffin. - Jim Kalafus
The best, by far, work about the Slocum during that time came in Jeff Kisselhoff's 1989 work You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan From the 1890s to World War II. Among the book's many highlights was an interview with survivor Edna Doering, who gave an exquisitely detailed account of the nightmare that claimed most of her family. Edna escaped easily from the General Slocum, but her brother Gustav, 9, and sister, Ida, 11, died in the river. Her badly burned mother was brought home to die a protracted death in her own apartment, during the course of which, Edna recalled, she called for the two children who died, and did not understand why they would not come to her. Gustav was recovered quickly, but Ida was missing for a time, and when she was found her body was brought back to the family apartment in a coffin. - Jim Kalafus
Victim of the General Slocum Disaster - age 9 years old, death cert # 3080 Bronx
The best, by far, work about the Slocum during that time came in Jeff Kisselhoff's 1989 work You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan From the 1890s to World War II. Among the book's many highlights was an interview with survivor Edna Doering, who gave an exquisitely detailed account of the nightmare that claimed most of her family. Edna escaped easily from the General Slocum, but her brother Gustav, 9, and sister, Ida, 11, died in the river. Her badly burned mother was brought home to die a protracted death in her own apartment, during the course of which, Edna recalled, she called for the two children who died, and did not understand why they would not come to her. Gustav was recovered quickly, but Ida was missing for a time, and when she was found her body was brought back to the family apartment in a coffin. - Jim Kalafus
The best, by far, work about the Slocum during that time came in Jeff Kisselhoff's 1989 work You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan From the 1890s to World War II. Among the book's many highlights was an interview with survivor Edna Doering, who gave an exquisitely detailed account of the nightmare that claimed most of her family. Edna escaped easily from the General Slocum, but her brother Gustav, 9, and sister, Ida, 11, died in the river. Her badly burned mother was brought home to die a protracted death in her own apartment, during the course of which, Edna recalled, she called for the two children who died, and did not understand why they would not come to her. Gustav was recovered quickly, but Ida was missing for a time, and when she was found her body was brought back to the family apartment in a coffin. - Jim Kalafus
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