In New York and at the Pentagon, the National Archives offered help to assess records damage, stabilize damaged records, and reconstruct files if possible.
Here, however, we are reprinting a piece that is close to home for the agency: for the first time on National Archives News, we are publishing the firsthand account from staff at the National Archives at New York City in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks. By Victoria Macchi and Jessie Kratz, September 9, 2021