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Caitlin Hollander

Caitlin Hollander

The Forgotten Protest

This is the story of the 1943 Rosenstraße protests, when the Nazi death machine was halted by the extraordinary yprotest of ordinary people

7 min readApr 4, 2022

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The Forgotten Protest

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Caitlin Hollander

The Triangle Factory Fire, 110 Years On

Very rarely is a law enacted in anticipation of a disaster; they are almost always due to a tragedy that has already happened. Exit doors…

9 min readMar 25, 2021

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The Triangle Factory Fire, 110 Years On

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Caitlin Hollander

The Boy with the Beautiful Grave

Last November, I participated in a cemetery indexing project in one of the sections of Mt. Zion Cemetery in Queens, New York that had…

7 min readSep 14, 2020

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The Boy with the Beautiful Grave

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Caitlin Hollander

The Epidemic That Wasn’t

A historic viral threat faced by NYC — and how one man’s reaction changed everything. This is the little-known story of Dr. Israel…

8 min readMar 21, 2020

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The Epidemic That Wasn’t

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Caitlin Hollander

Women From Nowhere

The right to citizenship? All about a little known era in which American women had no right to a nationality of their own.

6 min readMar 11, 2020

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Women From Nowhere

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Caitlin Hollander

No, Your Ancestors’ Names Were Not Changed at Ellis Island

It is an accepted part of the early 20th century immigrant story that officials changed the names of immigrants. But none of that is true.

11 min readOct 7, 2019

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Caitlin Hollander

Caitlin Hollander

Caitlin Hollander is a NY-based genealogist specializing in Jewish genealogy, Holocaust documentation, and citizenship reclaimation.

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