A group of Jews visiting a Jewish cemetery in Europe visited the grave of a young Jew, Yaakov Birnbaum, who died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 at the age of 25. His yahrzeit fell on Nissan 28, the exact date the group was visiting there.
Birnbaum was born in Krakow in 1887 and became head of the diamond firm of Jacob Birnbaum & Co. of San Francisco after moving to the US in 1909.
In 1912, he traveled to Antwerp for business and was persuaded by family to stay for Pesach. He initially booked passage back with another company, but due to a coal strike in England, his passage was transferred to the Titanic. His family pleaded with him not to take the Titanic on its maiden voyage, but he reassured them that the ship was billed as “unsinkable.”
His body was repatriated to Belgium where he had family, and he was buried at the Jewish cemetery in Putte, Holland, just across the Belgian border.
The top of his matzeivah is shaped like a ship in memory of the Titanic disaster. Birnbaum is the only Titanic victim whose tombstone has an exclusively Hebrew inscription.
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Interesting.
I think Isidor Straus who was also on the Titanic is buried in the Bronx.
Everyone his Yarzeit is Shavuos
Maybe the oilem should learn for him
THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC
https://www.loud-cry.com/TERRORISTS/ST-EN/TITANIC.html
One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the sinking of the Titanic, lies at the door of the Jesuit Order. The unsinkable ship, the floating palace was created to be the tomb for the wealthy, who opposed the Federal Reserve System. By April, 1912, ALL OPPOSITION TO THE FEDERAL RESERVE WAS ELIMINATED. In December of 1913, the Federal Reserve System came into being in the United States. Eight months later, the Jesuits had sufficient funding through the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK to begin World War One.
So who really killed JFK?
David, read the inscription. its says 28 nissan. he was buried on shvuous.