• 1,099World Trade Center victims remain unidentified. That’s40% of all those killed, including members of the FDNY like Firefighter Christian Regenhard, pictured here.

• The outdoor Memorial is free. The Museum is not: general admission currently costs $24–$36. At bedrock, seventy feet below ground, visitors encounter a large wall separating the Museum’s public space from the repository where unidentified and unclaimed remains of World Trade Center victims are held. A plaque identifies what lies beyond it. The repository itself is inaccessible to the public; an adjacent private Reflection Room is reserved for 9/11 family members.

• Families of those lost on 9/11 say they were never told that the unidentified remains of their loved ones would occupy such a prominent physical place within a privately operated museum. Although the remains are not exhibited, the repository’s presence is materially and architecturally part of what visitors encounter inside the Museum.

• For families without an identified recovery, this repository is immensely important and sacred. They have no grave or cemetery to visit. For many families—and for the friends, colleagues, neighbors, and communities who also lost someone on September 11—this is the only known resting place of someone they loved.

This website was created as a gift to Sally Regenhard, mother of Firefighter Christian Michael Otto Regenhard, and civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, in recognition of their decades of advocacy alongside September 11 families and their unwavering work to protect the dignity, memory, and rights of those who were lost.

Created and independently managed by the Death Advocacy Project.