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We have lived together for many years. Where you go, I go were the words of Ida Straus to her husband Isidor Straus when she was about to get on Titanics lifeboat No.8 but changed her mind and remained with her husband.
When it was decided that women and children should go first, Isidora was taken to the lifeboat 8. As they belonged to the elite class, Isidor was offered a seat in the same lifeboat, next to his wife but he refused to made an exception. He told Colonel Gracie in a firm tone: I will not go before the other men.
Even though Colonel Gracie and other friends tried to persuade her, she refused, saying that she wont be separated from her husband. She stated,As we have lived, so will we die, together.
Ida and Isidor were last seen on the deck holding each others arms. Eyewitnesses described the scene as the most remarkable exhibition of love and devotion. They both died when the ship sank. Isidor Straus body was later recovered and brought to Halifax, Nova Scotia where it was identified and sent to New York. Unfortunately, Isidoras body was never found.
There is a cenotaph dedicated to both Ida and Isidor at the Straus Mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. A quote from the Song of Solomon is inscribed on the cenotaph reading: Many waters cannot quench loveneither can the floods drown it.
What an incredible story. 1
When Ida got off the lifeboat, she turned to their maid; it was her first week on the job. Ida gave her final orders as an employer: to take her coat (I wont be needing it anymore) and to get into the boat. She told her husband
“We have lived together for many years. Where you go, I go.” 2