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Nonetheless, Ida was directed to lifeboat eight, and Isidor was offered a seat next to her.
But, she and Isidor quickly learned that men were being forced to stay behind, and the couple was only allowed to stay together because they were of the “elite class.”
Isidor became outraged and refused to take the seat just based on class.
“I will not go before the other men,” he reportedly said.
Then, Ida followed suit and refused to board. She instead insisted that her maid, Ellen, go on the lifeboat and take her fur coat.
“As we have lived, so we will die together,” Ida reportedly said to her husband, Isidor, while they remained on the ship.
And as the sixteen lifeboats rowed away from the tragedy, eyewitnesses last saw Ida and Isidor sitting on the deck and holding each other in their arms.
Sadly, they both passed away when the ship finally sank, and Isidor’s remains were later recovered. Unfortunately, though, Ida’s body was never found.
Nonetheless, witnesses and those who knew the couple regarded their decision as one of the most remarkable acts of devotion and love a couple could ever exhibit.
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