The MEMO Blog

As a part of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s programming for Women’s History Month, we are offering a free, live virtual tour of the 9/11 Memorial on Tuesday, March 30, from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. EST.

Montefiore Hospital marked the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 patients arriving at the Bronx facility with a special ceremony thanking all frontline workers and remembering the 28 hospital workers who died trying to save lives. 

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum released its annual report, which provides a snapshot of our efforts to inspire, educate, and commemorate over the course of 2020.

This past October, after several cancellations tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, a meeting finally solidified with the multimedia artist Andra Samelson. Almost a year earlier, she had contacted the 9/11 Memorial Museum about a gift she wished to make “in honor of those who were killed when the Twin Towers were destroyed.”

Six months from today, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum will lead the nation in commemorating the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that took the lives of 2,977 men, women, and children in New York City, Arlington, Virginia, and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s Education Department is pleased to announce a new partnership with Share My Lesson, a free lesson-sharing website funded by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Last week, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum welcomed Dr. Morwari Zafar, an anthropologist with experience in international development and national security, and currently an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University’s Security Studies program, to discuss the role cultural heritage plays in Afghanistan’s nation-building up to and following the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas 20 years ago.

Among this diverse league of dedicated women involved in the rescue and recovery efforts, today we share but four, whose stories and experiences have been captured in the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s collection.