6 True Tales of Love on the Titanic

Ida and Isador Straus's Titanic ordeal is a thing of legend. The German-Jewish immigrants were a well-suited couple. He was the owner of Macy's, a member of congress, and a philanthropist, and she was an intelligent and capable matriarch of the family. In the movie Titanic, they are last seen holding each other in their room as the water takes over. A Titanic Love Story: Ida and Isidor Straus chronicles the tale of the Strauses, who both went down with the ship. Ida reportedly put her foot in a lifeboat, but then decided to go back on the ship and share the fate of her husband.