Ida Mazer Straus VIRGINIA BEACH - Ida Mazer Straus, 98, passed away Saturday, May 16, 2009. Born in Baltimore, Ida moved to Richmond, where she married and ...

In an incident that has become legend, Ida Straus put her foot into a lifeboat and then stepped back, deciding to share her husband's fate. They both went down with the ship.

Ida Straus, the 63-year-old wife of Isidor Straus, 67, millionaire owner of R.H. Macy’s department store, made headlines around the world by refusing to take a seat on a Titanic lifeboat ...

The Straus Park in New York City's upper west side Manhattan and New York Public School 198, which is popularly called Isidor and Ida Straus School and was also established in their honor.

But it was a Jewish couple, Isidor and Ida Straus, who truly became Titanic legends — from the very start. Isidor, a very prominent businessman, was born in Bavaria in 1845 and emigrated to the ...

Isidor, 67, and Ida Straus, 63, were returning from an extended overseas trip when they booked first-class passage on the maiden voyage of the giant new luxury liner, buying a ticket that would ...

Stockton Rush's wife Wendy Rush is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who allegedly refused to leave the sinking ship until all women and children were on lifeboats.

Stockton Rush’s wife, Wendy, is a direct descendant of Isador and Ida Straus, who were passengers on the Titanic when it hit an iceberg during its maiden voyage in 1912.

Wendy Rush, the OceanGate communications director, is the great-great-grandchild of Titanic passengers Isidor and Ida Straus, according to The New York Times.

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FILE -Flowers adorn the renovated Isidor and Ida Straus memorial plaque as Macy’s and the Straus Historical Society celebrate its rededication during a ceremony at the Macy’s Herald Square ...

Isidor and Ida Straus have become known for a Titanic story about reportedly choosing to go down together on the sinking ship, arm in arm. Survivors said Isidor Straus would not get on a lifeboat ...