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,…
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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