In the film Titanic (1997), its director, James Cameron included a scene in which two old men hug each other lying on the bed from his cabin while the ship was sinking. It was a marriage made up of Isidor and Ida Straustwo first-class passengers traveling with their valet, John Farthing, and their maid, Ellen Bird, the only survivor of the four and the one who told what really happened to them.
Bird recalls that, due to his age (Isidor was 67), the captain assigned him a seat in pot nº8. However, Mr. Straus categorically refused to occupy it until all the women and children had climbed on.. Faced with this dilemma, Idahis wife of more than 40 years, refused to leave without her husband, leaving for the memory one of the most emotional stories of the Titanic. They only found his body, which was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Isidore, born in Germany in 1845was the son of wealthy German-Jewish landowners from Bavaria who were ruined in the Revolution of the German states of 1848 and They immigrated to the United States in 1854. where they founded a small grocery store, cotton and fabrics. Isidor started working there, and later became a business representative.
Founder of Macy’s department store
In 1894 it is Elected Congressman and Advisor to President Cleveland, position that he holds for one year without running for a new re-election and in 1896along with his brother Nathan, acquired the rights to the RH Macy & Co store., whose main source of income was glassware and transformed it into the successful Macy’s department storeearning the respect of the New York Jewish community.
In 1871 married Rosalie Ida Bluna German Jew who also emigrated to the United States and with whom he had seven children: Jesse, Clarence, Percy, Sara, Minnie, Herbert and Vivian. The wealthy couple were well known in New York thanks to their philanthropic work. In 1912, after a vacation on the French Riviera, the couple decided to take advantage of the maiden voyage of the Titanic to return to New York. The rest is history.
Isidor and Ida Straus, the couple who died embracing on the Titanic, were the great-great-grandparents of Wendy, Stockton Rush’s wife
Los Strauss They are the great-great-grandparents of Wendy Hollings Weil, Stockton Rush’s wife.president-founder of OceanGate Expeditions, and who is one of the five passengers on the Titan, the submersible disappeared in Atlantic waters since last Sunday. They married in 1986 and she is the director of communications for the company of her husband and has been on three expeditions to the wreck of the Titanic.
In the film Titanic (1997), its director, James Cameron included a scene in which two old men hug each other lying on the bed from his cabin while the ship was sinking. It was a marriage made up of Isidor and Ida Straustwo first-class passengers traveling with their valet, John Farthing, and their maid, Ellen Bird, the only survivor of the four and the one who told what really happened to them.