Cantor Fitzgerald, the trading firm which may have lost as many as 700 employees in the World Trade Center disaster, has established the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund for the families of those lost.

All money donated to the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund will be used to
provide emergency short-term financial assistance, emotional and mental
health support. It will also be available for ongoing assistance, says Cantor, for childcare, college tuition and long-term health care in the months and years ahead.

“There is, of course, no way anyone can even begin to compensate those who have lost their husbands, wives, parents, children, brothers and sisters in such a terrible fashion,” says Cantor’s chairman Howard Lutnick.

“These people include those of all walks of life, and employed in virtually every occupation – all special people whose lives have been inexplicably cut short. To those of us who’ve survived falls the responsibility of providing help and support for the families of those who did not. We must do everything possible to fill part of the void opened up in the lives of those who depended upon them.”