106th Street (Duke Ellington Boulevard) in Manhattan. The Isidor and Ida Straus Memorial is located in Straus Park, at the intersection of Broadway and West End Avenue at W. There are four memorials to Isidor and Ida Straus in their adopted home of New York City:Ī memorial plaque can be seen on the main floor of Macy's Department Store in Manhattan. His gravestone also serves as a cenotaph for his wife. The remains of Isidor Straus were recovered by the Mackay-Bennett and interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Isidor and Ida Straus Memorial, Upper West Side, Manhattan In the 1997 film Titanic, the Strauses are briefly depicted comforting each other as their stateroom floods with water, along with a deleted scene showing Isidor (played by Lew Palter) attempting to persuade Ida (Elsa Raven) to enter the lifeboat. The couple are portrayed in the 1958 film A Night to Remember, in scenes that are faithful to the accounts just cited. He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Isidor Straus's body was recovered by the cable ship Mackay-Bennett, brought to Halifax, Nova Scotia where it was identified before being shipped to New York. Isidor and Ida both died on April 15 when the ship sank. As we have lived, so will we die together". Ida refused to board the half-full boat, saying "I will not be separated from my husband. The officer filling up the boat told Isidor that he could get into the boat with his wife, but he refused to before other men and instead sent his wife's maid, Ellen Bird, into the boat. Ida reportedly would not leave Isidor and refused to get in a lifeboat. Traveling from Germany back to the United States, Isidor and his wife were passengers of the RMS Titanic when, on April 14, 1912, it hit an iceberg. The gravesite of Isidor Straus in Woodlawn Cemetery
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By 1896, the Straus brothers had gained full ownership of R. Congressman from January 30, 1894, to March 3, 1895, as a Democrat. The couple were inseparable, writing to each other every day when they were apart. Vivian Straus (1886–1974) first married Herbert Adolph Scheftel (1875–1914) and second, in 1917, married George A. Herbert Nathan Straus (1881–1933) who married Therese Kuhn (1884–1977) Jesse Isidor Straus (1872–1936) who married Irma Nathan (1877–1970)Ĭlarence Elias Straus (1874–1876) who died in infancy They were parents to seven children (one of whom died in infancy): In 1871, Isidor Straus married Rosalie Ida Blun (1849–1912). He spent the rest of the war working as a clerk in the store in substitution of an employee that had joined the army, and later served as representative of the family business in England.įollowing the end of the war the Straus family moved to New York City, where Isidor and his brother Nathan set up their family crockery and glassware business in the R. In 1854, he and his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Talbotton, Georgia where they opened a general store.Īt the outbreak of the American Civil War Isidor volunteered for the Confederate States Army but his solicitude was refused as he was only 16 years old at the time. He was the first of five children of Lazarus Straus (1809–1898) and his second wife Sara (1823–1876). Isidor Straus was born in Otterberg county of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He died with his wife, Ida, as a result of the sinking of the passenger ship RMS Titanic.
He also served briefly as a member of the United States House of Representatives. Isidor Straus (Febru– April 15, 1912)-a German Jewish American-was co-owner of the Macy's department store with his brother Nathan.
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