![]() The third mate who was helping people board that lifeboat said, “Mr. However, Ida got in and Isidor said, “I will not get in until I see every woman and child a board lifeboat, and then I will board the lifeboat and then only.” The wealthy and well-known members aboard were all expected to get in the lifeboat. I was captivated about the idea of a ship sinking and I’d ask question after question. ![]() She lived in a large apartment with a lot of staff for only one person. Hess (who was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine) died in his late fifties. My grandmother was widowed quite young as her husband Dr. I would sit with her afterwards in her library and ask her questions about the family and my great-grandparents, in particular. ![]() If there was no guest of honor at these regular Sunday meals when she’d entertain diplomats and important people. We went to my grandmother’s 12-room apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan every Sunday for lunch. I was about 11 or 12 years old, and that was the first time I recall learning about the Titanic. I heard about my great-grandparents, Isidor and Ida’s story from my grandmother, Sara Straus Hess. How did you learn the story of what happened to your grandparents? She did not die until I was 22 years old. I am descended from the eldest daughter of Sara Straus, by marriage, who became Sara Straus Hess. One named Clarence died in childhood and surviving were six children – three boys and three girls: Jesse, Percy, Herbert, Sara, Minnie and Vivian. The lineage starts with Isidor and Ida who had seven children. I am the great-grandson of Isidor and Ida Straus. Tell us how you are related to Isidor and Ida Straus. Get The AJT Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories The AJT spoke with the Straus’s great-grandson, Paul Kurzman, the former chairman of the Straus Historical Society, a social worker and professor with a dual appointment at Hunter College and at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Currently at The Breman Museum’s History with Chutzpah exhibition you can see a beautiful oil painting of Isidor Straus from 1912, the year the Titanic sank.
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