Isador Strauss: Remembering The Titanic

Isador Strauss was born on February 6, 1845 and was the co-owner of Macy's department store with Nathan, his brother. He was born into a Jewish family, and had 5 other siblings. He was educated at the Collinsworth Institute in Talbotton, GA. In 1871, he married Rosalie Ida Blun. He eventually moved to New York he became involved with Macy and C.O.

He and his wife traveled back to Europe on the “Amerika” for one last time before going back to New York for good. To get back to New York, Strauss and his wife purchased a first out of third class passenger ticket on a brand new ship, RMS’ White Star Line Titanic! When boarding the Titanic, people were swarming all around, nearly 3000 of them. This was many more than the ship could carry and I’ll …show more content…
The giant ship stopped with a jolt and the engines all shut down. Isadaor and Ida did not know what had just happened so just as a safety precaution, they went up to the boat deck. Thousands of people were already there and boarding the few lifeboats. They heard shouts of “the ship is sinking!” Ida and Isador didn’t know if it was true, but all of a sudden, they felt the ship start to lean forward! Ida was offered a seat on the lifeboat, but she stepped out right away and said "I will not go before the other men."(Cited from Encyclopedia Titanica)The married couple stood back just as all the lights flickered off, and her last words before their death were "I will not be separated from my husband. As we have lived, so will we die, together."(Cited from Encyclopedia Titanica)

Titanic was an awesome thing to learn about. It's kind of like when you eat something you worked really hard to make, but you still get the cool experience of making it. Titanic was something that someone had worked really hard on, though it sank. We still got the amazing experience in class to learn about