This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 20, 1912. A Jewish man, Abraham Hyman, a steerage-deck passenger on the Titanic, tells a remarkable story about how he rescued himself: “I was asleep when the ship collided with the iceberg. Twenty minutes later, I was out of bed. By the time I got…
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 16, 1912. Among first-class passengers who have likely perished are also Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus. It appears that Mrs. Straus didn’t want to leave her husband and rejected the opportunity to be rescued herself by boarding a lifeboat. Isidor Straus was a prominent millionaire…
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 19, 1912. Twenty immigrants who were rescued from the Titanic are currently staying at the Hospitality Society located at 229 East Broadway. Five of them are Jewish; the rest are Christians and Muslims. Mr. Irving Lipschitz and Mr. Samuel Mason, representatives of the Hebrew Immigrant…
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 16, 1912. The death throes of 1,254 people accompanied the mighty ship to its watery grave—Its first journey is its last—Its remarkable beginning is its sad end—Ships arrive too late to help—The Carpathia finds more than 800 women and children in lifeboats. Yesterday at 7.30…
One of the drowned is Isidor Straus. Mrs. [Ida] Straus also drowned as she decided to lovingly die together with her husband rather than be rescued, according to reports by several passengers who were there. Robert W. Daniel, a banker who lives at 328 Chestnut St. n Philadelphia and who is one of the rescued,…
It was a simple yet generous gesture. About 5,000 employees of Macy’s department store contributed what little they could afford to create a memorial plaque for their boss, Isidor Straus, and his wife, Ida, who died in the Titanic disaster. “Their lives were beautiful and their deaths glorious,” read the inscription on the bronze bas-relief…
This editorial was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 18, 1912. First impressions of the horrendous accident cause a heightened awareness of one’s humanity. The victims died suffering hideous death throes. People weep and keen and rend their clothes ritually over the loss of their loved ones. At a time such as this, who…
Nearly a century after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, the stories about how those aboard fared during the ship’s final hours remain as fresh today as they were on the fateful night of April 14, 1912. The luxury ocean liner, helmed by Capt. Edward Smith, was carrying the fabulously wealthy and the steerage poor…
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