Disaster Victim. Died in the sinking of the "RMS Titanic" on April 14-15, 1912. His family owned large department store in Omaha, Nebraska. It was falsely rumored that he tried to sneak onto one of the Titanic's life boats by putting on a dress.
His body was recovered by the Mackay Bennett no 208.
He was the son of Jonas Leopold Brandeis (1834-1903), a dry goods merchant, and Francesca Teweles (1845-1905), both Jewish immigrants from a region of what was then Bohemia and now part of the modern-day Czech Republic. Both his parents had emigrated to the USA around 1856 and had married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin around 1862. His father was the founder of a successful dry goods merchant, J. L. Brandeis & Sons. One of four children, Emil's siblings were: Arthur Donoen (1862-1916), Sarah (1867-1936, later Mrs Herman Cohn) and Hugo (1868-1912).
His body was recovered by the Mackay Bennett no 208.
He was the son of Jonas Leopold Brandeis (1834-1903), a dry goods merchant, and Francesca Teweles (1845-1905), both Jewish immigrants from a region of what was then Bohemia and now part of the modern-day Czech Republic. Both his parents had emigrated to the USA around 1856 and had married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin around 1862. His father was the founder of a successful dry goods merchant, J. L. Brandeis & Sons. One of four children, Emil's siblings were: Arthur Donoen (1862-1916), Sarah (1867-1936, later Mrs Herman Cohn) and Hugo (1868-1912).
Disaster Victim. Died in the sinking of the "RMS Titanic" on April 14-15, 1912. His family owned large department store in Omaha, Nebraska. It was falsely rumored that he tried to sneak onto one of the Titanic's life boats by putting on a dress.
His body was recovered by the Mackay Bennett no 208.
He was the son of Jonas Leopold Brandeis (1834-1903), a dry goods merchant, and Francesca Teweles (1845-1905), both Jewish immigrants from a region of what was then Bohemia and now part of the modern-day Czech Republic. Both his parents had emigrated to the USA around 1856 and had married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin around 1862. His father was the founder of a successful dry goods merchant, J. L. Brandeis & Sons. One of four children, Emil's siblings were: Arthur Donoen (1862-1916), Sarah (1867-1936, later Mrs Herman Cohn) and Hugo (1868-1912).
His body was recovered by the Mackay Bennett no 208.
He was the son of Jonas Leopold Brandeis (1834-1903), a dry goods merchant, and Francesca Teweles (1845-1905), both Jewish immigrants from a region of what was then Bohemia and now part of the modern-day Czech Republic. Both his parents had emigrated to the USA around 1856 and had married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin around 1862. His father was the founder of a successful dry goods merchant, J. L. Brandeis & Sons. One of four children, Emil's siblings were: Arthur Donoen (1862-1916), Sarah (1867-1936, later Mrs Herman Cohn) and Hugo (1868-1912).
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