This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 21, 1912. Among the many tragedies that are now being described by those who were rescued, this is one of the most horrible. It was described by one of the rescued sailors, whose name is being withheld at his request. “I saw it with my…
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 20, 1912. This is the picture of how Mrs. [Ida] Straus refused to abandon her husband. More than anyone, the rescued passengers from the Titanic speak about Mrs. Straus — how she refused to abandon her husband, how she would rather die together with him…
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 19, 1912. His name is on the list of the missing — Just last Monday, his wife received a postcard from him saying he was on his way home. Nathan Goldsmith was a passenger aboard the unfortunate ship, the Titanic, which sunk. His name is…
This list was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 18, 1912. 11 Jewish Names Among Rescued Steerage Passengers Augusta Abramson Mary Bukstum Leye Oks Tili Oks Emily Bakhman Gershon Kahn Mini Guselman Khane Manman S. Dshablin Aksel Sheyn Jewish Steerage Passengers Who Are Missing E. Aronson Nathan Goldsmith K. Bakstum Abraham Herman Z. Zlatshevski…
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 20, 1912. Louis Pagnalia is a saloonkeeper from Philadelphia who was on the Titanic and who rescued himself with a remarkable idea. He himself described the incident: “We were all on deck. The women and the children were already in the lifeboats. Then the ship…
This editorial was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 16, 1912. The heart bleeds for the hundreds of Titanic disaster victims. The civilized world is united in its mourning. One’s first impression and what floods the reader from the news reporting is that human emotion of sympathy. The Titanic, however, was the last word,…
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 16, 1912. Scenes of weeping and desperation took place yesterday all day long and through the night at the offices of the White Star Line located at 9 Broadway. A stream of people drawn there were besieging the clerks, demanding the latest news. These were…
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…
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