Their love story was featured in James Cameron's fictionalized Titanic film -- which showed the pair in each other's arms as the ship sank (via toofab)
wreckage herself over the past two years -- is the great great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who died aboard the ocean liner in 1912. Isidor and his brother Nathan were co-owners of Macy's department store.
Before their deaths, the Strauses welcomed seven children together, including daughter Minnie, who married Dr. Richard Weil in 1905. Citing the executive director of the Straus Historical Society, the Times reports that Minnie and Richard's son, Richard Weil III -- who later became president of Macy's New York -- is Wendy's father.According to survivors, due to their wealth and notoriety, Ida and Isidor were granted the option to board a lifeboat as the ship was sinking ...
"My great-grandmother Ida stepped into the lifeboat expecting that her husband would follow,” their great-grandson Paul A. Kurzman toldin 2017."When he didn't follow, she was very concerned and the ship's officer in charge of lowering that particular lifeboat said, 'Well, Mr. Straus, you're an elderly man ... and we all know who you are ... Of course, you can enter the lifeboat with your wife.
"And, my great-grandfather said, 'No. Until I see that every woman and child on board this ship is in a lifeboat, I will not enter into a lifeboat myself,'" he shared. This moment was fictionalized in James Cameron's"Titanic" film, but was only included as one of its deleted scenes. The released version of the movie, however, shows the pair holding one another in bed as the ship sank.Meanwhile, the search for the Titan continues, though the oxygen reserves onboard
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