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The Lens: Capturing Life and Events at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum is a photography series devoted to documenting moments big and small that unfold at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
A pair of ash-covered shoes with torn soles; a beat-up leather wallet; a charred golden ring. These images are seared in my mind.
The 9/11 Memorial held a tribute Thursday to honor Randolph Holder, a 33-year-old New York City police officer who was fatally shot in the line of duty in an East Harlem neighborhood.
A little girl is frightened. It’s her first day of preschool. Her lunchbox is packed and resting on the dinner table, but her parents' eyes are glued to the television. Their faces are stone—eyes sharp, voices hushed. She asks them to turn off the news and they comply, not wanting to scare her. This is the only memory I have from 9/11.
A lifelong resident of Bronx, New York, Sonia Agron, now a 9/11 Memorial Museum docent, volunteered as a recovery worker on overnight shifts with the American Red Cross for weeks at ground zero after 9/11.
The Lens: Capturing Life and Events at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum is a photography series devoted to documenting moments big and small that unfold at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
Every day, 92-year-old Navy veteran Rudy Meisenheimer wears a gold medallion with badge number 4745 inscribed across the FDNY emblem in memory of his son Raymond Meisenheimer, a 46-year-old firefighter who was killed on duty on Sept. 11.
The Lens: Capturing Life and Events at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum is a photography series devoted to documenting moments big and small that unfold at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
In 1993, Marcela Segovia’s mother traveled around New York City taking photos of herself with famous landmarks, including the Twin Towers.
As an education specialist at the 9/11 Memorial Museum, I find the most meaningful moments are when students, many of whom are too young to have lived through the day, make connections to the event through personal stories.
