The couple are also portrayed in the 1953 film, Titanic, and the 1958 film, A Night to Remember, in scenes that are faithful to the accounts described above. Isidor and Ida are memorialised on a cenotaph outside the mausoleum, 'Many waters cannot quench love - neither can the floods drown it.' His body was moved to the Straus Mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx in 1928. He was first buried in the Straus-Kohns Mausoleum at Beth-El Cemetery in Brooklyn. Isidor Straus' body was recovered by the cable ship Mackay-Bennett and brought to Halifax, Nova Scotia where it was identified before being shipped to New York. Eyewitnesses described the scene as a 'most remarkable exhibition of love and devotion.' Both died as the ship sank. As we have lived, so will we die, together.' Isidor and Ida were last seen alive on the deck holding hands before a large wave dragged them into the sea. Ida is reported to have said, 'I will not be separated from my husband. She gave Ellen her fur coat stating she would not be needing it. Ida insisted her newly hired English maid, Ellen Bird, get into lifeboat #8. Although Isidor was offered a seat in a lifeboat too, he refused seating while there were still women and children aboard. Once it was clear Titanic was sinking, Ida refused to leave Isidor and would not get into a lifeboat. Traveling back from a winter in Europe, mostly spent at Cap Martin in southern France, Isidor and his wife were passengers on the RMS Titanic when, on April 14, 1912, it hit an iceberg. Ida and Isidor perish together in their stateroom. They settled in Talbotton where Lazarus had opened a dry goods store. In 1854 he and his family immigrated to the United States following his father Lazarus who immigrated two years before. He was the first of five children of Lazarus Straus (1809–1898) and his second wife Sara (1823–1876). Isidor Straus was born in Otterberg county of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

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