--- title: Library of Congress Gets Oral Histories of 9/11 Responders description: Rescue workers provided interviews and photos for the collection canonical: https://time.com/4155074/911-september-11-terrorist-attacks-oral-history/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-18T17:33:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:56:46.115Z article:section: History og:title: Library of Congress Receives Oral Histories of 9/11 Responders og:description: Rescue workers provided interviews and photos for the collection og:url: https://time.com/4155074/911-september-11-terrorist-attacks-oral-history/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Library of Congress Receives Oral Histories of 9/11 Responders twitter:description: Rescue workers provided interviews and photos for the collection twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Library of Congress Receives Oral Histories of 9/11 Responders ## Video: 9/11: A Family of Firefighters [Watch (HLS stream): 9/11: A Family of Firefighters](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GK8qvYHW.m3u8) (5:19)  _Published 2011-09-06. After fire chief Jim Riches lost his son Jimmy -- also a firefighter -- on 9/11, his three other sons would follow in their brother's footsteps and join the FDNY (Photographs and Video by Marco Grob)_ by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Dec 18, 2015 5:33 PM UTC by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Dec 18, 2015 5:33 PM UTC Some 200 accounts provided by emergency responders to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks will be available in the Library of Congress. The American Folklife Center will be home to the “Remembering 9/11 Oral History Project,” the Library of Congress said Friday. Included in the collection are the oral histories—some more than an hour long—and more than 1,000 photographs, manuscripts, logbooks and indexes involving the teams of rescue workers who responded to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Dr. Benjamin Luft donated the collection. Luft, as a physician at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, treated many of those responding to the tragedy and believes his gift will resonate with visitors. “It comes at a time of great anxiety considering the recent repeated terrorist attacks on our soil and elsewhere in the world,” Luft in a statement. “These stories are the responders’ gift to our nation, now and for generations to come. Listening to them, with their descriptions of courage, love, sacrifice and survival, inspires us and informs us on how we need to be unified and care for one another during this time of unease.” The American Folklife Center is also home to personal narratives about Sept. 11 that were gathered from around the country and donated to the Library of Congress under the StoryCorps project. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4155074/911-september-11-terrorist-attacks-oral-history/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4155074/911-september-11-terrorist-attacks-oral-history/"},"headline":"Library of Congress Receives Oral Histories of 9/11 Responders","datePublished":"2015-12-18T17:33:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:56:46.115Z","description":"Rescue workers provided interviews and photos for the collection","url":"https://time.com/4155074/911-september-11-terrorist-attacks-oral-history/","keywords":["tragedy","9/11","september 11"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/tragedy/","name":"tragedy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4155074/911-september-11-terrorist-attacks-oral-history/","name":"Library of Congress Receives Oral Histories of 9/11 Responders"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"9/11: A Family of Firefighters","description":"After fire chief Jim Riches lost his son Jimmy -- also a firefighter -- on 9/11, his three other sons would follow in their brother's footsteps and join the FDNY (Photographs and Video by Marco Grob)","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/GK8qvYHW/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2011-09-06T22:46:11.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GK8qvYHW.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4155074/911-september-11-terrorist-attacks-oral-history/","duration":"PT5M19S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4155074/911-september-11-terrorist-attacks-oral-history/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```