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,…
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 24, 1912. Yesterday evening, a memorial was to be held for Mr. and Mrs. [Isidor] Straus, who died tragically on the Titanic. It was to occur at the Educational Alliance on East Broadway at the corner of Jefferson Street. Mr. Straus was president of the…
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…
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