3 Men Behind Macy's and the Fate That Split Them Forever — Straus Brothers

What happened to the three sons of a Georgia peddler after the two who owned Macy's said goodbye in Jerusalem in the spring of 1912? Lazarus Straus left Otterberg in 1852 and wheeled goods between Georgia plantations, and within fifty years his sons owned the largest store in the world. — SOURCES: "Isidor Straus" — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_Straus "Ida Straus" — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Straus "Nathan Straus" — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Straus "Oscar Straus (politician)" — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Straus_(politician) "Lazarus Straus" — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Straus "Oscar Solomon Straus" — Encyclopaedia Judaica, Jewish Virtual Library https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0019_0_19261.html "Isidor Straus" — Immigrant Entrepreneurship, German Historical Institute https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entries/isidor-straus/ "Lazarus & Sara Straus" — Straus Historical Society https://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/lazarus--sara-straus.html "The Straus Collection: Introduction" — Museum of Fine Arts, Houston https://emuseum.mfah.org/catalogues/straus-collection/menu/straus-collection-introduction "Straus Park Monuments" — NYC Parks https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/straus-park/monuments "Congressional Record Describes Nathan Straus' Crusade for Pure Milk" — Jewish Telegraphic Agency https://www.jta.org/archive/congressional-record-describes-nathan-straus-crusade-for-pure-milk "Millions of Lives Saved by Pasteurized Milk" — Philanthropy Roundtable https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/millions-of-lives-saved-by-pasteurized-milk/ "Making History South of I-285" — Atlanta Jewish Times https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/making-history-south-of-i-285/ "Macy's Moguls: The Straus Brothers" — Aish https://aish.com/macys-moguls-the-straus-brothers/ "A Titanic Love Story: Ida and Isidor Straus" (Mercer University Press, 2012), June Hall McCash — the couple's lives told through their surviving letters The family's Confederate ties and Lazarus Straus's ownership of enslaved people are stated plainly in the video, drawn from standard reference works. They belong to the record, and they sit alongside the family's later philanthropy rather than being softened by it. The popular story that Nathan Straus held a Titanic ticket, along with the brothers' scripted "last argument," was left out as legend. The widely shared "saved a million children" figure was replaced with the documented estimate of more than 400,000, which a New York health official gave for Manhattan and the Bronx.