Isidor and Ida Straus (TITANIC 1912)

TITANIC

In memory of 1.523 souls

April 15th, 1912

02:20 AM

"The sound of people drowning
is something I cannot describe to you
and neither can anyone else.
It is the most dreadful sound
and then there is dreadful silence
that follows it."

Eva Hart - Titanic survivor

"RMS Titanic adalah sebuah kapal penumpang super Britania Raya yang tengglam di Samudra Atlantik Utara pada tanggal 15 April 1912 setelah menabrak sebuah gunung es pada pelayaran pertamanya, dari Southampton, Inggris menuju Ney York.
Kapal ini dibangun pada 1909 sampai 1911 oleh galangan kapal Harland and Wolff di Belfast. Kapal ini sanggup mengangkut 2.224 penumpang." -Wikipedia

Titanic identik dengan "Jack and Rose", tapi siapa sangka ada cerita romantis lainnya didalam sini.
Another love story, between Mr. Isidor Straus (67) and Mrs. Ida Straus (63).
Mr. Isidor Straus  (67) and Mrs. Ida Straus (63) are the first class passengers aboard the Titanic.
This couple had been married for 41 years at the time of the disaster, and they have 6 children.
They always traveled together ; In fact they were rarely apart during their married life, and if they were apart, they always wrote each other every day during the periods on separations.

During the sinking, Titanic's officers pleaded with the 63 year old Ida to board a lifeboat and escape the disaster, but she repeatedly refused to leave her husband. Instead, she placed her maid in a lifeboat, taking her fur coat off and handing it to the maid while saying, "I won't need this anymore", who unfortunately din not survive.

At one point, she was convinced to enter one of the last two lifeboats, but jumped out as her husband walked away to rejoin him.

"Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can the floods drown it."

Loving Decision

Senator Smith: Did she [Ida Straus] step into the boat? 

Mr. Crawford: She stepped onto the boat, on to the gunwales, sir, but then she stepped back. 

Senator Smith: What followed? 

Mr. Crawford: She said, "We have been living together for many years, and where you go, I go." 

Senator Smith: To whom did she speak? 

Mr. Crawford: To her husband. 

Senator Smith: Did you see her get into the boat?

Mr. Woolner: She would not get in. I tried to get her to do so and she refused  to leave Mr. Straus. The second time we went up to Mr. Straus, and I said to him: "I am sure nobody would object to an old gentleman like you getting it. There seems to be room in this boat." He said: "I will not go before the other men."