This is why videos like this are so important. They take the romanticism out of the tragic event and remind you that it actually happened to real people.
I can’t even begin to realize the trauma and the horror that these unfortunate people went through on that fateful night RIP to each and every one of them
Edith Louise Rosenbaum Russell (June 12, 1879 - April 4, 1975) was an American fashion buyer, stylist and correspondent for Women's Wear Daily, best remembered for surviving the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic with a music box in the shape of a pig. Edith was 90 years old here at this interview. She was only 33 years old when she was on the Titanic in 1912.
Edith Russell was 33 when Titanic sank. She was known as the lady with the pig. When she went into her life boat, all she took was a musical piggy that played a song when she twisted its tail. She kept the kids calm while waiting for rescue by playing it over and over.
There was a young lady in first class who refused to board the lifeboats as they wouldn’t let her bring her dog with her. She got off the life boats and got back onto the ship. If you read the accounts of the rescuers, a couple of them reported seeing a lady floating frozen, with her arms wrapped around a large dog. I always think about that poor girl and her poor pup ❤
😢😢 that is so sad God bless all the ones who lost their lives and the ones who had a second chance I would love to hear from some more survivors if there's any left these days this is July the 5th in 2024 I am seeing this
Funnily enough, the dogs of the titanic had a similar survival rate to 3rd class passengers. 25% of the dogs on titanic were rescued. It is estimated that roughly 25% of 3rd class passengers were also rescued.
One of the things that gets me most about the Titanic is the darkness that would’ve enveloped everyone when the ship snapped in half and the lights went out. The suction is terrifying too. The thought of being dragged down into the depths of that dark, freezing ocean…ugh. My wife and I went to the Titanic museum last summer and they had water set to the temperature the ocean was that night. I thought “how cold could it really be? It probably wasn’t that bad 🥴” so I put my hand in the water and after only several seconds, I couldn’t even bend my fingers. My joints completely locked up and my fingers ached for a good 5 minutes afterwards. The pain those people must’ve felt, smh.
Edith Russel and Arthur Lewis survived such a tragic and horrible ordeal of the Titanic sinking. Glad they left us these interviews of what happened to them and what they witnessed that night. May all the victims that passed that night Rest in Eternal Peace 😇🙏❤️🦋
Living my life as a Christian I find most people never think about eternal peace in heaven until it's too late. Hopefully some received Christ as their Saviour that terrible night. I have read books on it, one man kept asking those in the water, Are you saved yet? Still witnessing to them about Jesus up until he was taken by the sea, but he had a home in Heaven that he was sure of. Are you saved who ever is reading this? Read John 3:16 in the Holy Bible and Romans 3:10 Romans 10:13 ❤God Bless
Where was this nursing home?? My great great grand mother was a child on the Titanic! I still have a RMS Titanic Issued Bible that she grabbed when heading to the lifeboats!!!
Eliza Gladys Dean (2 February 1912 - 31 May 2009), known as Millvina Dean, was a British civil servant, cartographer, and the last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912.[1] At two months old, she was also the youngest passenger aboard
My great-grandmother was supposed to be on the Titanic but one of her children was sick so they didn’t go. My grandmother was born the following year in 1913. It still gives me chills knowing that if my grandma’s brother never got sick, my grandma wouldn’t exist as well as my dad and I.
@@cyndimarie9394her great grandmother would have maybe died therefore not being able to give birth to her grandmother which is her fathers mother therefore she wouldnt exist lmao
I want to the Titanic exhibit in Michigan. We were all given a boarding pass at the beginning. I was a sculptor accompanying one of my works to Montreal I believe. I survived too.
I visited the titanic exhibit, at the start you are given a ticket with a passengers name on it…at the end you check to see if you survived. I suspect all the children’s ticket had survivors name on them. I feel very strongly that the titanic wreck is not turned onto a tourist attraction.
I’ve seen another video of a survivor who said music was definitely being played as it went down. There’s been many different accounts but memories fade & with all the chaos that night, I’m sure every victim had a different experience & remember different things.
I don’t see how they could have continued to play as it capsized. Initially yes, they’d have continued to play to soothe everyone but as the boat shifted for sinking it doesn’t make sense that they’d have been able to. I think that’s what’s this woman is saying happened.
I think she was making a subtle distinction. In the high class way, she is saying that yes music was playing but not played PLAYED in a celebratory manner. She is one of the society, SWELLS, and nuances like that mattered much to them. She is quite dramatic
My great great Grandmother was a child on the Titanic!!! I still have a RMS Titanic Issued Bible she gave my mother and my mother gave to me! She took it from the ship when it was sinking!!n
I lived next door to a survivor of the Titanic back in the 70s...Mr. Krekorian. My mom and I went to his funeral...there were only family there...they did mention at one point that he was a survivor...but mostly spoke in Armenian and song.
@@gorilla1988 not sure his first name was that ... But his wife had long grey hair and use to sit on the porch every day and brush it then tie in a bun.
There is no way they’d hear that over the crashing water and explosions and breaking of the ship. There is no way musicians can play when the floor tilts to levels that would send them all sliding to one side of the room in a pile of people and furniture. It’s too horrific to contemplate let alone continue playing somehow.
@amynazza good points. But clearly, we will never be able to say one way or the other, we weren't there. I'm just blown away that out of everything mentioned, folks were mostly focused on the music?!? Make that make sense... lol I heard much more important things talked about!!! Take care and God bless.
The History Guy just put out a great video about the unforgetton crew - of 900, I believe it was less than 120 that survived. The 'firemen' (men working the coal fires) continually worked until the ship sank, its estimated they kept the ship afloat for an extra 3 crucial hours as well as providing electricity (for lights, the radios, etc) Stewards gave up their lifejackets to passengers, restaurant crew stayed locked in their rooms - two of which were the youngest employed on board, both 14) The majority of the crew took the jobs because of the local coal mine strikes so when the ship went down it took major portions of those towns' populations - not to mention the countless windows now facing poverty (they only received the pittence of $4 in compensation for the loss of the family's breadwinner) Anyone interested in the real story of the Titanic & the forgotten crew should definitely check it out 💙
Yes, and, the three important American businessmen. who opposed creation of the Federal Reserve System, all drowned . This was a monstrous tragedy for the American Republic. Also. Rumors are , it was planned by the Globalists who wanted to take over the American banking system. I believe it., because some of these same globalists refused to go on this voyage.
This is a little history taken from a pub called the Crown I usually visit in Hastings, which has its own link to the history of the Titanic in one of its landlords. The landlord from 1902-1907 was Alexander James Littlejohn. After his time here he went to sea with the White Star Line as a steward, and in 1912 he joined the ill-fated Titanic on its maiden voyage. His grandson Phillip Littlejohn explained: “My grandfather was a first-class steward on the Titanic but survived the ordeal after being ordered to row lifeboat 13. It was in this boat that the youngest passenger aboard, nine weeks old Millvina Dean, was rescued. She became the longest surviving passenger and died in 2009 aged 97. Her forward ports [the ship]were under water and we could see the lights gradually go out on E deck …. All her other lights were burning brilliantly and she looked a blaze of light from stem to stern. We watched her like this for some time then suddenly she gave a plunge forward and all the lights went out. Her stern went right up in the air; there were two or three explosions and ... immediately after there were terrible cries for help. They were awful and heartrending.”
There were many many other witness accounts that say they were playing music. Just because she wasn't on that side of the boat, hearing it, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
It's great we have actual video of interviews with survivors. So many ships sank in the 1800s and early 1900s. This was the biggest of their time and their voices are still here.
Memory is subjective. I’ve watched other interviews of people the same age as this lady or older… the music played. It’s not romanticism. It’s humans knowing their time is up and not even bother with trying to be rescued… it’s called being a humanitarian and coming together in a time of crisis. She probably only heard the screams, the silence, the crashes of things as the ship tipped up vertically. RIP every passenger
Wat she said was that there isn’t a possible way for the music to be played as it sank. Listen again. And think about it-physically the ship turned vertical in the air as it literally sank. It isn’t possible for the music to be played in that situation. Leading up to that yes-but the actual sinking no way.
I was an STNA in the early 90s and took care of a lady who was a Titanic survivor. Unfortunately, she didn't speak because she had late stage dementia. 😢
It's interesting that you suggested that. At the end of the movie Reds, about Americans getting caught up in the Commie Russian Revolution of 1917, director Warren Beatty added interviews with contemporaries of the characters depicted in the film. They were of course very old in 1980, much as these Titanic survivors are here, in 1970. But the people who had known the characters in Reds gave riveting accounts of the events of 1917. As a matter of fact, I think that maybe their accounts were interspersed through Reds. I despise Communism, myself, so my interest in the story is nil. Still a fascinating technique, and you thought of it too, just as had Warren Beatty.
Also the movie should have added the only black man that was on aboard his pregnant wife and two daughters they were in second class, the wife and kids survived he died his name was Joseph Laroche
Absolument ! Quand j étais petite nous avions vu à la télé 📺, un Vrai reportage des quelques survivants qui parlaient dans les années 60 , et c était tellement prenant, tellement fort, j aimerais revoir celà
This is wonderful history to have. Our family history is important also. How nice it would be to have tapes of our grandparents or great grandparents talking about their lives!
What Edith Russell was talking about was her very fashionable hobble skirt. Getting into lifeboats was not as easy as the movies indicate. In an interview years earlier than this one she said that when she finally ended up at the lifeboat she was supposed to go to a few men picked her up to throw her into the boat headfirst but she panicked because the gap between the ship and lifeboat was so large and she refused to go and they dropped her and she lost her shoes. She found her shoes and was standing there looking around and someone grabbed her musical pig which was wrapped in a blanket and threw it into the lifeboat telling her at least her baby was going to be saved. Her mother told her not to ever be separated from her good luck pig so she decided she'd better follow it into the lifeboat. But she still had to get into the lifeboat and she was wearing a hobble skirt and she was afraid her love of fashion was going to be the death of her and a man offered to help her and he knelt down to help her climb onto the railing and then she had to jump for the lifeboat in her hobble skirt and he offered to throw her.
The Titanic was a tragedy that happened 112yrs ago but in my broken heart it could've been yesterday. Of all of the worlds tragic events it is the loss of life from the sinking of the Titanic that i feel the most for some reason. I cry every time. May every passenger and crew Rest Peacefully in the warm embrace of God 🙏
Incredible footage. I always wondered about the underpull of the ship as it went down. I cannot even imagine what sitting in a lifeboat, freezing, watching this once magnificent ship go under.
Also hearing all the people in the water, who didn’t make it on lifeboats, screaming for help! Must’ve been an awful feeling being unable to go back and help them.
Funny how jp Morgan was supposed to be on board and ditched last second, leaving the rest of the world's richest men (who were against the reserve) on board. They say the boat was actually the olympia and not even the titanic but I've not fully researched that part yet.
They were coming to America, then to Hyde Island to discuss the start of the Department of Treasury. Needed funding so they started ww1 to gain more funding. Then the fake stock market crash. The confiscating the gold and silver act of 1933 , issuing birth certificates into a cesti Que vie trust account attached to your social security number held in the Department of Treasury and making us debter slaves under the 16th amendment. All under maritime jurisdiction, law of the water. We are all dead at sea.
@@vikingsister So clear that you didn't even see she has something under her left eye. No, she is not a man. Can't you show a little bit more respect to a lady who survived a terrible tragedy and died almost 50 years ago?
@@valeriehartman3705 I'm not going to blindly respect anyone, no. Especially after all the lies, the distorted facts that are fed to us from an early age
Their was a gentleman when I was young who frequented Jake Schneiders beer garden in south Baltimore, Md . He was called Tommy Talk too much who survived the Titanic dress on the life boat as a women ! He mentally was impaired from the guilt ! Stayed intoxicated everyday of the rest of his life 🇬🇧🇺🇸
I appreciate the love that you're trying to give, but I don't believe you meant it how you typed it. They'd be almost 200 years old now had they lived, some older and some younger. I myself wish suffering wasn't a thing in life, but alas, it's an unbearable part of life, no matter the species. 💔
I never thought about that part😮 imagine sitting in a life boat scared out of your wits .sitting waiting hearing screams. All for your life boat to get sucked back towards a ginormous metal ship getting sucked into the water😮😮😮😮😮
I red the book about the Titanic and is totally different than the two movies I’ve seen. Books are always more complete and closer to the truth of this real story.😢😢😢😢
I love seeing interviews of elderly people in filmed before the year 2000. Old People look and speak so different to how they did in my childhood. Living through the wars, sun damage etc. those people were truly a different generation. Boomers may seem different to following generations but these people are like a different species in only a couple of generations! Its so fascinating
As the people loaded into lifeboats the music would have still been able to play. But once the lifeboats were loaded…. There is no way the survivors would have been close enough to hear the orchestra playing without getting sucked into the pull of the sinking ship. Plus the creaks and groans and explosions that come from a ship filling with water, tilting on its side, and sinking vertically. Not to mention the noise of the ocean waves, or the volume of icebergs cracking and settling after being crashed into. And this doesn’t even take into account how the musicians were supposed to keep playing as the stuff in that room slid to the side in a jumbled mass of people and chairs and music stands. There is no way they would physically be able to play as the ship went down.
It took several hours before the ship sank. And there are no survivors who were on there at the very end or close enough. I imagine there was music early on but not at the very end.
My heart breaks for those poor souls. The absolute terror they suffered. So many events in the world that are so horrific and innocent souls endure it as their final moments! God bless us all!
The Titanic disturbed me with the cruel division of classes in a life threatening situation. Everyone has 1 life. We are equal in that regardless of money. Every passenger who lived or died should have sued White Star lines for that treatment alone. life is priceless.
It's tragic what she went through, but my goodness she sounds like a typical first class snob! Heaven forbid she should have to jump 🙄🙄 I'm sure the poor people in the lower classes who weren't even given a fighting chance would have GLADLY JUMPED if it meant a chance to LIVE!! May those poor souls, and all who lost their lives RIP 🙏🙏🙏
I’ve always wondered about what she said at the end. How that huge ship sinking down didn’t drag them all under with it. Those rowers really gave it everything they had and then some getting far enough away to save them from getting sucked in.
These videos are incredible. Just knowing about something from the other side of the world so long after. Social media isn't inherantly a bad thing. It means you can look at an event a hundred years ago like it was yesterday.
The Captain of the Carpathia, the ship that rescued more than 700 survivors, wrote about the ice he saw in the water when the sun came up and realized his ship had been guided by an unseen hand.
Because you moderators are against people defending God Almighty. These nay sayers forget that the reason we have been placed in this plane of existence is to practice free will. That same free will can cause awful things to happen and the first to thing they say is ,”if there is a God how come the innocent didn’t get saved?” Little do they know that when these innocent perish they are indeed, being saved.
It's tragic what she went through, but my goodness she sounds like a typical first class snob! Heaven forbid she should have to jump 🙄🙄 I'm sure the poor people in the lower classes who weren't even given a fighting chance would have GLADLY JUMPED if it meant a chance to LIVE!! May those poor souls, and all who lost their lives RIP 🙏🙏🙏
Because they were not allowed to go on the first class deck....sorry no. Even the lifeboats being dropped down became first class and the lower class weren't allowed to enter them. Titanic is not just a brutal reminder of man's ego but also the wide division between the rich and the poor.
Some of the issues with being in third class that contributed to the loss of so many people were there were more third class passengers than the others, many spoke no English, the lifeboat stations were far from that area of the ship requiring someone to show them the way, there was miscommunication between officers about who was to be allowed on lifeboats. Some thought women and children first with men filling in empty spaces and others thought it was women and children only and set the lifeboats off leaving men, even First Class men, standing by and empty seats in the lifeboats. There was confusion over a plan to only partly fill boats at lifeboat stations and then pick up other passengers on a lower deck closer to the water. The first lifeboats had fewer people on them due to lack of urgency and people not wanting to leave the ship in the cold dark night in a lifeboat that had to be lowered a long way to the water. And the reality of the situation was there simply were not enough lifeboats. Even if every person on Titanic had been able to get to a lifeboat station, there were no boats. At the time laws dictated the number of lifeboats be determined by the weight of the ship, not the number of people it could carry. And while Titanic had a few more than required by law, there still were not enough. Many people were going to die no matter how fast everyone got to the lifeboats.
That was such a horrific tragedy. I can only imagine. This stayed with the survivors their entire lives. So sad & heartbreaking. Im not fond of water & I would never go on a cruise. 🙏
The suction of a sinking ship is terrifying. I heard a survivor of the Estonia disaster in the Baltic Sea in 1994 that one moment he was floating and the next he was pulled down by an incredible force that seemed to grab him by the pants. Fortunately he didn't drown before resurfacing.
Just watched another video, a man who survived, still having nightmares about it decades later. The calmness and composure of these people is breathtaking. RIP all who died in that terrifying tragedy.
I had a family member on Titanic’s sister ship that sunk - he was wealthy ( not us unfortunately lol) but he was saved by life boat - and while walking across the street in NY the next day, was hit by a car & died from complications from the car 😢accident … ❤True story… sadly.
This is why videos like this are so important. They take the romanticism out of the tragic event and remind you that it actually happened to real people.
I hate that movie for that reason. They made it the backdrop for a love story.
Exactly!
And it was a tragedy.
My great great uncle Richard Blair died on the Titanic.
@@tracywerner4315 sorry to hear. My condolences.
I had a family member who died on the Titanic, he was a crewman in one of the boilers. He unfortunately didn’t make it off, his name was Thomas Casey
I have a friend named Thomas Casey
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I know the name Thomas casey...😮
I also had a family member in the boiler. I wonder if they knew each other and here we are running into each other on a TH-cam comment. Wild.
🙏🏼🤍💫
There are no survivors left. Thankfully these films exist!
In the end the titanic won
@@Gemna157Only took it decades and decades💪🏻
@@Gemna157 Not really, most of the survivors lived to a very old age. Everyone dies eventually, they didn't die because of the ship.
@@Alucia0 so the boat won, they all dead now.
There might be a few left in remote areas like the Himalayas.
I'm so glad they interviewed the Titanic survivors.
Better than interviewing the victims
Better than interviewing the victims
As upossed to the non survivors?
I can’t even begin to realize the trauma and the horror that these unfortunate people went through on that fateful night RIP to each and every one of them
A tragic event. But this footage is a wonderful piece of history.
Soon to be erased. With all history.
It was all planned by the little hatted people
@@KeweenawPatriotthe tribe are behind the eradication of our people and the destruction of our lands
@@KeweenawPatriotyep
@@KeweenawPatriotwhat?
Edith Louise Rosenbaum Russell (June 12, 1879 - April 4, 1975) was an American fashion buyer, stylist and correspondent for Women's Wear Daily, best remembered for surviving the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic with a music box in the shape of a pig. Edith was 90 years old here at this interview. She was only 33 years old when she was on the Titanic in 1912.
Wow she lived to be 96
Wow she lived to be 96 and was 90 in this video she looks 70 here.
@boundariessetinstone893 She looks 100.
Thank you
The real life Rose
Edith Russell was 33 when Titanic sank. She was known as the lady with the pig. When she went into her life boat, all she took was a musical piggy that played a song when she twisted its tail. She kept the kids calm while waiting for rescue by playing it over and over.
Really nice of her
Crazy tidbit. Thanks so much for sharing.
So that's what the lucky pig is about in A Night To Remember!
@@Aimee0206 Yes she goes back for the pig 🤗
@@Aimee0206 after seeing this what else could that be based on
There was a young lady in first class who refused to board the lifeboats as they wouldn’t let her bring her dog with her. She got off the life boats and got back onto the ship. If you read the accounts of the rescuers, a couple of them reported seeing a lady floating frozen, with her arms wrapped around a large dog. I always think about that poor girl and her poor pup ❤
😢😢 that is so sad God bless all the ones who lost their lives and the ones who had a second chance I would love to hear from some more survivors if there's any left these days this is July the 5th in 2024 I am seeing this
Funnily enough, the dogs of the titanic had a similar survival rate to 3rd class passengers. 25% of the dogs on titanic were rescued. It is estimated that roughly 25% of 3rd class passengers were also rescued.
She was an idiot
I can honestly say , i'd do the same . I'd give my life for my dogs because , i know they'd do the same for me ! 😢
That poor girl would have had her dog live instead of another human. Sorry, she sounds like either a ignorant romantic or a heartless fool.
One of the things that gets me most about the Titanic is the darkness that would’ve enveloped everyone when the ship snapped in half and the lights went out.
The suction is terrifying too. The thought of being dragged down into the depths of that dark, freezing ocean…ugh. My wife and I went to the Titanic museum last summer and they had water set to the temperature the ocean was that night. I thought “how cold could it really be? It probably wasn’t that bad 🥴” so I put my hand in the water and after only several seconds, I couldn’t even bend my fingers. My joints completely locked up and my fingers ached for a good 5 minutes afterwards. The pain those people must’ve felt, smh.
'smh' ?? You just ruined a good story with that lazy ass crap.
Where's the museum located?
How cold was it
@cherylreyna9013 there's one in Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area TN
The North Atlantic Ocean is absolutely brutal .
Edith Russel and Arthur Lewis survived such a tragic and horrible ordeal of the Titanic sinking. Glad they left us these interviews of what happened to them and what they witnessed that night. May all the victims that passed that night Rest in Eternal Peace 😇🙏❤️🦋
Thanks for all that
Dido
Living my life as a Christian I find most people never think about eternal peace in heaven until it's too late. Hopefully some received Christ as their Saviour that terrible night. I have read books on it, one man kept asking those in the water, Are you saved yet? Still witnessing to them about Jesus up until he was taken by the sea, but he had a home in Heaven that he was sure of. Are you saved who ever is reading this?
Read John 3:16 in the Holy Bible and Romans 3:10
Romans 10:13 ❤God Bless
Not resting in ETERNAL. Peace..resting now,to be awakened on that great day,to live in the earth made new.
Agreed. Do you know if their characters were in the movie?
When my grandmother was in a nursing home back in the 70s, the lady in the room next to her was a titanic survivor
Any stories from her neighbor?
Found herself in the middle of another sea is see 😢
Where was this nursing home?? My great great grand mother was a child on the Titanic! I still have a RMS Titanic Issued Bible that she grabbed when heading to the lifeboats!!!
That’s incredible!!!
You definitely deserve an award!!
So sad that you had a family member in a nursing home. Very selfish if your family.
Wow. Last survivor of the titanic died in 2009, she was 2 months old when the ship sank
And it's last victims died 18th June 2023!
@@nolareefman934what do you mean by that?
Oh, the submersible. I got it. Sorry
@@SnotrocketLT4OMG has it been that long already 😮 time is flying !!! Can’t believe that was June last year 😮
Eliza Gladys Dean (2 February 1912 - 31 May 2009), known as Millvina Dean, was a British civil servant, cartographer, and the last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912.[1] At two months old, she was also the youngest passenger aboard
@@nolareefman934nonsensical.
My great-grandmother was supposed to be on the Titanic but one of her children was sick so they didn’t go. My grandmother was born the following year in 1913. It still gives me chills knowing that if my grandma’s brother never got sick, my grandma wouldn’t exist as well as my dad and I.
That is what we call divine intervention. Makes me wonder what god has in store for your family to ensure you had a future.
Are you speaking of your great grandmother?
Wow
@@cyndimarie9394her great grandmother would have maybe died therefore not being able to give birth to her grandmother which is her fathers mother therefore she wouldnt exist lmao
Wow! God sure has a plan for your lives.
This needs to stay viral. These poor folks. Rip to all of them.
It’s not just the suction down, it’s all the floatable items escaping from the vessel at depth rising up like missiles
Terrifying
@@SuperPinklady08 100%
Oh shoot I didn’t even think of that 😳
I never thought of that
It's still hilarious 😂😂
I love how this woman has her pearls and nails done.
That’s a handsome woman right there! Lol, She kinda scares me..😬
It is a man
@@SilkeBischof No, it’s not.
@@SilkeBischof what is wrong with you?! That is clearly a woman in the beginning of the video!
She was a fashion buyer and stylist for Women’s Wear Daily. Probably always liked to look her best with a career like that 😊😊
The book written about it has a list of survivors at the back. A member of my family lived. Fredrick Hoyt.
I want to the Titanic exhibit in Michigan. We were all given a boarding pass at the beginning. I was a sculptor accompanying one of my works to Montreal I believe. I survived too.
Wow never know. maybe I have one.
What's name of book?
@@debrapaulino918 the Titanic.
I visited the titanic exhibit, at the start you are given a ticket with a passengers name on it…at the end you check to see if you survived. I suspect all the children’s ticket had survivors name on them. I feel very strongly that the titanic wreck is not turned onto a tourist attraction.
I’ve seen another video of a survivor who said music was definitely being played as it went down. There’s been many different accounts but memories fade & with all the chaos that night, I’m sure every victim had a different experience & remember different things.
I don’t see how they could have continued to play as it capsized. Initially yes, they’d have continued to play to soothe everyone but as the boat shifted for sinking it doesn’t make sense that they’d have been able to. I think that’s what’s this woman is saying happened.
This lady says she doesn't doubt that music was played, but basically not where everyone could hear it, as was portrayed.
I think she was making a subtle distinction. In the high class way, she is saying that yes music was playing but not played PLAYED in a celebratory manner. She is one of the society, SWELLS, and nuances like that mattered much to them. She is quite dramatic
I love Edith’s voice. RIP
Finally I get to hear it from the source. Thank you for this historical interview.❤
My great great Grandmother was a child on the Titanic!!! I still have a RMS Titanic Issued Bible she gave my mother and my mother gave to me! She took it from the ship when it was sinking!!n
Wow
Post it please.
Picture?
What a wonderful item to have.
That’s amazing
I lived next door to a survivor of the Titanic back in the 70s...Mr. Krekorian. My mom and I went to his funeral...there were only family there...they did mention at one point that he was a survivor...but mostly spoke in Armenian and song.
Neshan? Oh good man he was. A bit funny, but good at heart.
Thank you for your compassion. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@gorilla1988 not sure his first name was that ... But his wife had long grey hair and use to sit on the porch every day and brush it then tie in a bun.
Breathtaking testimony.
Thank you for sharing this 🙏 😢😢😢
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HUNDREDS of survivors claimed themselve's, that they SAW and HEARD the band still playing music, even as they went under.
Incorrect
Why is it that the music is the thing you're most focused on]?!? Come on!!!!
There is no way they’d hear that over the crashing water and explosions and breaking of the ship. There is no way musicians can play when the floor tilts to levels that would send them all sliding to one side of the room in a pile of people and furniture. It’s too horrific to contemplate let alone continue playing somehow.
@amynazza good points. But clearly, we will never be able to say one way or the other, we weren't there. I'm just blown away that out of everything mentioned, folks were mostly focused on the music?!? Make that make sense... lol
I heard much more important things talked about!!! Take care and God bless.
I need to see the full interview. Incredible.
The full interview is on YT. I’ve watched it many times.
@@ecto1996than, you. I will look it up.
Yes
Hit the Arrow⏯️ below the title. ✌️
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The History Guy just put out a great video about the unforgetton crew - of 900, I believe it was less than 120 that survived.
The 'firemen' (men working the coal fires) continually worked until the ship sank, its estimated they kept the ship afloat for an extra 3 crucial hours as well as providing electricity (for lights, the radios, etc)
Stewards gave up their lifejackets to passengers, restaurant crew stayed locked in their rooms - two of which were the youngest employed on board, both 14)
The majority of the crew took the jobs because of the local coal mine strikes so when the ship went down it took major portions of those towns' populations - not to mention the countless windows now facing poverty (they only received the pittence of $4 in compensation for the loss of the family's breadwinner)
Anyone interested in the real story of the Titanic & the forgotten crew should definitely check it out 💙
Wow-- The White Star Line only paid the survivors a $4 dollar judgement??
Yes, and, the three important American businessmen. who opposed creation of the Federal Reserve System, all drowned . This was a monstrous tragedy for the American Republic. Also. Rumors are , it was planned by the Globalists who wanted to take over the American banking system. I believe it., because some of these same globalists refused to go on this voyage.
They should make a movie about the bravery of some of the crew and passengers that saved lives.
It's antisemitic to investigate the Titanic
They have
@@suen5006 they shall had
It's called The Titanic. You should watch it.
@@Lefti1iLeft They shall had called The Titanic. They shall had should watch it.
This is a little history taken from a pub called the Crown I usually visit in Hastings, which has its own link to the history of the Titanic in one of its landlords.
The landlord from 1902-1907 was Alexander James Littlejohn. After his time here he went to sea with the White Star Line as a steward, and in 1912 he joined the ill-fated Titanic on its maiden voyage. His grandson Phillip Littlejohn explained: “My grandfather was a first-class steward on the Titanic but survived the ordeal after being ordered to row lifeboat 13. It was in this boat that the youngest passenger aboard, nine weeks old Millvina Dean, was rescued. She became the longest surviving passenger and died in 2009 aged 97. Her forward ports [the ship]were under water and we could see the lights gradually go out on E deck …. All her other lights were burning brilliantly and she looked a blaze of light from stem to stern. We watched her like this for some time then suddenly she gave a plunge forward and all the lights went out. Her stern went right up in the air; there were two or three explosions and ... immediately after there were terrible cries for help. They were awful and heartrending.”
The titanic has always been such an eerie part of history
These interviews bring everything into perspective . The horror what was happening . I hope all those who never made it. Rest in Peace
Amazing footage. Good for Edith putting things right. God rest her soul 🙏
You cant just take her word for it.
There were many many other witness accounts that say they were playing music. Just because she wasn't on that side of the boat, hearing it, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
It's great we have actual video of interviews with survivors. So many ships sank in the 1800s and early 1900s. This was the biggest of their time and their voices are still here.
Yeah. Unfortunately, she died 5 years after this.
Go to see Empress of Ireland disaster!
Ships...have been sinking since the beginning of time. Lol....
So these people not only survived the Titanic sinking, they lived through WW1, the great depression, and WW2.
I'll stop complaining about my life now.
U said it ... ✔️☝️... Many a true word in jest spoken ... 👌🙋
Forgot Spanish flu
Memory is subjective. I’ve watched other interviews of people the same age as this lady or older… the music played. It’s not romanticism. It’s humans knowing their time is up and not even bother with trying to be rescued… it’s called being a humanitarian and coming together in a time of crisis. She probably only heard the screams, the silence, the crashes of things as the ship tipped up vertically. RIP every passenger
Yeah, let's just worry about the music being played...
Wat she said was that there isn’t a possible way for the music to be played as it sank. Listen again. And think about it-physically the ship turned vertical in the air as it literally sank. It isn’t possible for the music to be played in that situation. Leading up to that yes-but the actual sinking no way.
I was an STNA in the early 90s and took care of a lady who was a Titanic survivor. Unfortunately, she didn't speak because she had late stage dementia. 😢
I can't imagine having to experience such a horrible tragedy...😢😢
Imagine being poor or middle class and then dying during the tragedy because you and your children weren't wealthy enough to matter.
These witness testimonies should’ve been added to the end of the movie
It's interesting that you suggested that. At the end of the movie Reds, about Americans getting caught up in the Commie Russian Revolution of 1917, director Warren Beatty added interviews with contemporaries of the characters depicted in the film. They were of course very old in 1980, much as these Titanic survivors are here, in 1970. But the people who had known the characters in Reds gave riveting accounts of the events of 1917. As a matter of fact, I think that maybe their accounts were interspersed through Reds. I despise Communism, myself, so my interest in the story is nil. Still a fascinating technique, and you thought of it too, just as had Warren Beatty.
A brilliant sobering touch 👏
Also the movie should have added the only black man that was on aboard his pregnant wife and two daughters they were in second class, the wife and kids survived he died his name was Joseph Laroche
Absolument ! Quand j étais petite nous avions vu à la télé 📺, un Vrai reportage des quelques survivants qui parlaient dans les années 60 , et c était tellement prenant, tellement fort, j aimerais revoir celà
They wouldn’t have been able to add the scene of the band playing music as the ship went down…she clearly said it was a GHASTLY LIE!
This is wonderful history to have. Our family history is important also. How nice it would be to have tapes of our grandparents or great grandparents talking about their lives!
What a amazing day video, I absolutely love history and watching videos like these of people who were actually there just blows my mind
Fantastic history interviews of a truly horrifying and tragic event. RIP all those that didn't survive 😢
What Edith Russell was talking about was her very fashionable hobble skirt. Getting into lifeboats was not as easy as the movies indicate. In an interview years earlier than this one she said that when she finally ended up at the lifeboat she was supposed to go to a few men picked her up to throw her into the boat headfirst but she panicked because the gap between the ship and lifeboat was so large and she refused to go and they dropped her and she lost her shoes. She found her shoes and was standing there looking around and someone grabbed her musical pig which was wrapped in a blanket and threw it into the lifeboat telling her at least her baby was going to be saved. Her mother told her not to ever be separated from her good luck pig so she decided she'd better follow it into the lifeboat.
But she still had to get into the lifeboat and she was wearing a hobble skirt and she was afraid her love of fashion was going to be the death of her and a man offered to help her and he knelt down to help her climb onto the railing and then she had to jump for the lifeboat in her hobble skirt and he offered to throw her.
Geeze, why not just take the stupid skirt off.
I had to look up hobble skirt.
What a brave and kind man, knowing he was almost certain to die and he still helped her.
@angr3819 - now I really have to look up what a hobble skirt is (what it looks like)!
The Titanic was a tragedy that happened 112yrs ago but in my broken heart it could've been yesterday. Of all of the worlds tragic events it is the loss of life from the sinking of the Titanic that i feel the most for some reason. I cry every time.
May every passenger and crew Rest Peacefully in the warm embrace of God 🙏
I cannot even begin to imagine the utter horror that all the passengers and crew members experienced. It’s so shocking and heartbreaking.
This lady was born in 1879. 33 when the titanic sank. How cool to see this video.
Incredible footage. I always wondered about the underpull of the ship as it went down.
I cannot even imagine what sitting in a lifeboat, freezing, watching this once magnificent ship go under.
Also hearing all the people in the water, who didn’t make it on lifeboats, screaming for help! Must’ve been an awful feeling being unable to go back and help them.
"What do you think I am? An acrobat or a monkey or something? "
Yep, that's what she said
😂 😅 very powerful woman, love that line It s a pleasure to hear
We all heard that, weird0.
Either monkey or you'll soon be a seamonkey up to you.
We got ears!
What a tragic event, May all of her victims and survivors Rest In Peace.
Well, they are all resting in peace until the resurrection comes as Jesus Christ promised in the near future . John 6:39
These interviews are treasures.
Absolutely chilling! These people were so emotional about the truth!
Federal reserve was enacted right after that event. What a strange coincidence.
So did ww1 couple years later 🤔
The truth would set us free.
💯 exactly why it happened.
Funny how jp Morgan was supposed to be on board and ditched last second, leaving the rest of the world's richest men (who were against the reserve) on board. They say the boat was actually the olympia and not even the titanic but I've not fully researched that part yet.
They were coming to America, then to Hyde Island to discuss the start of the Department of Treasury. Needed funding so they started ww1 to gain more funding. Then the fake stock market crash. The confiscating the gold and silver act of 1933 , issuing birth certificates into a cesti Que vie trust account attached to your social security number held in the Department of Treasury and making us debter slaves under the 16th amendment. All under maritime jurisdiction, law of the water. We are all dead at sea.
Wow, true facts from the real passengers / survivors.
There is no such thing as a false fact. Facts are true by nature.
Edith Russel, what a lady!!! I'd live to hear her whole story.
Sorry, Ed was NOT a female, but still, a very interesting life he had.
@@milliesecond102Edith Louise Rosenbaum Russell most definitely was a female and a lady!
Don't you see the man? I think it's very clear
@@vikingsister So clear that you didn't even see she has something under her left eye. No, she is not a man. Can't you show a little bit more respect to a lady who survived a terrible tragedy and died almost 50 years ago?
@@valeriehartman3705 I'm not going to blindly respect anyone, no. Especially after all the lies, the distorted facts that are fed to us from an early age
So touching. So privileged to hear this witness from the survivors.
Just imagine everything in the world those people lived through. The changes they would of seen in their lifetime are insane
Their was a gentleman when I was young who frequented Jake Schneiders beer garden in south Baltimore, Md . He was called Tommy Talk too much who survived the Titanic dress on the life boat as a women ! He mentally was impaired from the guilt !
Stayed intoxicated everyday of the rest of his life 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Tragic, it was all so very sad!😢😢😢
THESE PEOPLE WENT THROUGH A HORRIFIC DISASTER, THEY ARE MEANT TO STILL BE HERE, BLESS THEM ALL.
They are not meant to still be here. They'd likely all be dead of old age
I appreciate the love that you're trying to give, but I don't believe you meant it how you typed it. They'd be almost 200 years old now had they lived, some older and some younger. I myself wish suffering wasn't a thing in life, but alas, it's an unbearable part of life, no matter the species. 💔
Thinking of the people who weren’t allowed to first class
I never thought about that part😮 imagine sitting in a life boat scared out of your wits .sitting waiting hearing screams. All for your life boat to get sucked back towards a ginormous metal ship getting sucked into the water😮😮😮😮😮
What a horrible memory to have obtained from that unbelievable night....RIP all who perished on that terrible night......🥺🥺
Amazing piece of history. Thx for sharing it.
What an amazing bit of history.
I cannot imagine the fear... I will never go on a cruise after watching Poseidon.
Agreed 🤝
Or the Love Boat. You might end up listening to Buddy Hackett and Ruth Buzzi going at it.
eh this was a hundered years ago entire cruise ships rarely go down and there are always enough life boats for all guests
I red the book about the Titanic and is totally different than the two movies I’ve seen.
Books are always more complete and closer to the truth of this real story.😢😢😢😢
I love seeing interviews of elderly people in filmed before the year 2000. Old People look and speak so different to how they did in my childhood. Living through the wars, sun damage etc. those people were truly a different generation. Boomers may seem different to following generations but these people are like a different species in only a couple of generations! Its so fascinating
Bless these people who went thru this horrific tragedy
Horrific!!! I cannot even imagine experiencing this!!
According to multiple witnesses, the band did in fact play until the very end. She was maybe in a spot on the ship where it could not be heard.
Some people said here, she was 2 months old.
What sucks is the band was considered independent contractors (kinda like door dashers) so the Titanic's owners refused to pay for their deaths
@@heide-raquelfuss5580no, this lady was 31 when it went down. The youngest passenger on board that was saved was two months old.
As the people loaded into lifeboats the music would have still been able to play. But once the lifeboats were loaded…. There is no way the survivors would have been close enough to hear the orchestra playing without getting sucked into the pull of the sinking ship. Plus the creaks and groans and explosions that come from a ship filling with water, tilting on its side, and sinking vertically. Not to mention the noise of the ocean waves, or the volume of icebergs cracking and settling after being crashed into.
And this doesn’t even take into account how the musicians were supposed to keep playing as the stuff in that room slid to the side in a jumbled mass of people and chairs and music stands. There is no way they would physically be able to play as the ship went down.
It took several hours before the ship sank. And there are no survivors who were on there at the very end or close enough. I imagine there was music early on but not at the very end.
My heart breaks for those poor souls. The absolute terror they suffered. So many events in the world that are so horrific and innocent souls endure it as their final moments! God bless us all!
The Titanic disturbed me with the cruel division of classes in a life threatening situation. Everyone has 1 life. We are equal in that regardless of money. Every passenger who lived or died should have sued White Star lines for that treatment alone. life is priceless.
What do you think I am?
Crew member: ummm dead if you don't make like an acrobat and jump
It's tragic what she went through, but my goodness she sounds like a typical first class snob! Heaven forbid she should have to jump 🙄🙄 I'm sure the poor people in the lower classes who weren't even given a fighting chance would have GLADLY JUMPED if it meant a chance to LIVE!! May those poor souls, and all who lost their lives RIP 🙏🙏🙏
That’s chilling to hear those accounts .. makes it all more real!
“The suction” of the titanic always creeped me out. Just the thought of being pulled into some dark icy abyss
I’ve always wondered about what she said at the end. How that huge ship sinking down didn’t drag them all under with it. Those rowers really gave it everything they had and then some getting far enough away to save them from getting sucked in.
It took over two hours for the titanic to sink, so....
These videos are incredible. Just knowing about something from the other side of the world so long after. Social media isn't inherantly a bad thing. It means you can look at an event a hundred years ago like it was yesterday.
God bless them and may those who lost their lives rest in peace.
What interesting footage. So tragic too.
The Captain of the Carpathia, the ship that rescued more than 700 survivors, wrote about the ice he saw in the water when the sun came up and realized his ship had been guided by an unseen hand.
Keep that religion away from here please
Why didn't this unseen hand help the 1500 that went down?
😂😂😂😂😂
Why did my comment get deleted
Because you moderators are against people defending God Almighty.
These nay sayers forget that the reason we have been placed in this plane of existence is to practice free will. That same free will can cause awful things to happen and the first to thing they say is ,”if there is a God how come the innocent didn’t get saved?”
Little do they know that when these innocent perish they are indeed, being saved.
Lovely old accents, you dont hear them anymore
It’s the area you live in.
Really? The British accents at least still survive. Many British accents have changed significantly, but you'll still here these two.
I hear people talk like these people all the time. But even if they don't, who cares? Language is always evolving and changing with every generation.
@@makomadeira5799Get over yourself.
@@dildonius change is constant, but we can appreciate what once was and be sad to see it go.
She was lucky that she was even allowed to get in the life boat
It's tragic what she went through, but my goodness she sounds like a typical first class snob! Heaven forbid she should have to jump 🙄🙄 I'm sure the poor people in the lower classes who weren't even given a fighting chance would have GLADLY JUMPED if it meant a chance to LIVE!! May those poor souls, and all who lost their lives RIP 🙏🙏🙏
Very important video! Thanks for sharing!
Great piece of history!
the eva hart pub in chadwell heath romford was named after a local resident who was one of the survivers from the titanic disaster its worth a visit
Because they were not allowed to go on the first class deck....sorry no. Even the lifeboats being dropped down became first class and the lower class weren't allowed to enter them.
Titanic is not just a brutal reminder of man's ego but also the wide division between the rich and the poor.
One of the criticism from the enquiry was of how many of the passengers from steerage died and that more could've been saved
Many more would have been saved if only they had filled the life boats they had to capacity .
AA makes a difference on this, alcohol is no Respector of persons, neither is God.
@@jackiepowell7513 your comment makes no sense
Some of the issues with being in third class that contributed to the loss of so many people were there were more third class passengers than the others, many spoke no English, the lifeboat stations were far from that area of the ship requiring someone to show them the way, there was miscommunication between officers about who was to be allowed on lifeboats. Some thought women and children first with men filling in empty spaces and others thought it was women and children only and set the lifeboats off leaving men, even First Class men, standing by and empty seats in the lifeboats. There was confusion over a plan to only partly fill boats at lifeboat stations and then pick up other passengers on a lower deck closer to the water. The first lifeboats had fewer people on them due to lack of urgency and people not wanting to leave the ship in the cold dark night in a lifeboat that had to be lowered a long way to the water. And the reality of the situation was there simply were not enough lifeboats. Even if every person on Titanic had been able to get to a lifeboat station, there were no boats. At the time laws dictated the number of lifeboats be determined by the weight of the ship, not the number of people it could carry. And while Titanic had a few more than required by law, there still were not enough. Many people were going to die no matter how fast everyone got to the lifeboats.
The lady, bless her heart, she makes everything about the titanic seem more real. Idk she has a genuine-ness about her..
I agree with this woman. I think everybody would have been in panic mode to play music as the ship went down.
There are reports that the band was playing, it was probably just drowned out by the chaos
As we know, the Titanic has of late, claimed 5 more lives.
Such a haunting reminder. Even after all these years, she's still taking lives😢
How?
@@Meltn6876Titan implosion.
@@Meltn6876submersible with tourists aboard.
@@kimcripps4139 oh duh. Lol. Ty
That lady is like Maggie Smith from Downton Abbeys" American cousin. I would love to see a photograph of her when she was young.
Just google Edith Louise Rosenbaum Russell
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Such treasures, if only we had video interviews of all the great accomplishments/tragedies of history.
That was such a horrific tragedy. I can only imagine. This stayed with the survivors their entire lives. So sad & heartbreaking. Im not fond of water & I would never go on a cruise. 🙏
The suction of a sinking ship is terrifying. I heard a survivor of the Estonia disaster in the Baltic Sea in 1994 that one moment he was floating and the next he was pulled down by an incredible force that seemed to grab him by the pants. Fortunately he didn't drown before resurfacing.
There's a reason that amazing lady got half the footage of this clip🙏☘☘☘
All the people that were against the federal reserve being enacted were on the titanic. Just another fantastic cohencidence.
I see what you did there 👀
Didnt know that "!
Amen
The truth
Yeah, we don’t care about them. We care about the families who died.
I'm so sorry y'all had to go through that. But I'm so thankful that you're still here to tell us about it. It must have been horrific.
This is footage from 1970.
@@simmiedavissimmiesings8185 LOL
Lmfao @@simmiedavissimmiesings8185
Imagine being worried about a small jump to a life boat in the face of sinking into the icy water
Just watched another video, a man who survived, still having nightmares about it decades later. The calmness and composure of these people is breathtaking. RIP all who died in that terrifying tragedy.
Absolutely fascinating, I would have hoped they would have at least audio everyone that survived a day or so after reaching New York harbor
History is really hard, so many tragic things have happened over the years.
I love this ladies nails. So amazing to hear her account
May all those have passed away rest in peace amen for the survivors. That had to live through that horrible experience. God bless over them.all 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I had a family member on Titanic’s sister ship that sunk - he was wealthy ( not us unfortunately lol) but he was saved by life boat - and while walking across the street in NY the next day, was hit by a car & died from complications from the car 😢accident … ❤True story… sadly.