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Ida spent the winter of 1911/1912 in Europe with her husband Isidor. They originally planned to return home on a different ship, but switched to the Titanic due to a coal strike in England that caused the coal from other ships to be diverted to the Titanic.
The couple are portrayed in the 1953 film Titanic, the 1958 film A Night to Remember, and in the musical Titanic, in scenes that are faithful to the accounts described above. In the 1979 film S.O.S. Titanic , Ida and Isidor are shown, however the film deviates from the accounts and has Ida tell Isidor that she plans to "stay a little while."
Before the couple fell victim to the Titanic sinking, Isidor served as a member of the United States Congress and co-owned Macy's with his brother. ... "They were very rich and Jewish, [but] I ...
She was joined by fellow Titanic survivor Millvina Dean. [7] That same year, Louise was present as the Titanic Historical Society dedicated a stone marker in Cherbourg commemorating Titanic passengers who sailed from its port. [8] Louise Laroche died on 28 January 1998 at the age of 87. At the time of her death only six Titanic survivors remained.
The couple famously spent most of their winters in the French Riviera and were set to sail on Titanic's maiden voyage, but Hershey needed to get back to America on urgent business and ended up ...
Wendy Rush is the great-great-grandaughter of Ida and Isior Straus, two of the wealthiest people to die in the Titanic disaster. Musician King Princess, Descended from Couple Who Perished on the ...
Astor in 1909 Astor as Henry IV of France. John Jacob Astor IV was born on July 13, 1864, at his parents' country estate of Ferncliff in Rhinebeck, New York.He was the youngest of five children and only son of William Backhouse Astor Jr., a businessman, collector, and racehorse breeder/owner, and Caroline Webster "Lina" Schermerhorn, a Dutch-American socialite.
Newspaper report of the sinking of the Titanic. Most reports featured the Astors in the headlines. Madeleine Astor, then five months pregnant, boarded the Titanic as a first-class passenger in Cherbourg, France, with her husband; her husband's valet, Victor Robbins; her maid, Rosalie Bidois; and her nurse, Caroline Endres.