It is more than 107 years ago, the western world was witness to the disaster, which was to become almost synonymous with disasters in the future.
despite the massive interest, research and depictions in museums, in books and film, the story of the Titanic still surprise.
For a letter written by a survivor from the sinking have emerged to the surface (figuratively).
The typing of the australian nyhedsmedie News.
the Letter is written by French Michel Navratil, who was four years old, when he was aboard the HMS Titanic in 1912. He and his brother Edmond Navratil had been abducted from their mother by their father and taken on board.
the Letter has been appeared in the documentary by the name of ‘Titanic: Stories from the deep’ and is being read by Michel Navratils granddaughter Elisabeth Navratil.
the letter says that:
‘I woke up beside my dad. He carried me in his arms to the deck on the Titanic. My brother and I were put in a boat. It was already full of passengers. My father asked me to express his devotion to my mother, and then he left us.’
In the time after was Michel and his brother, known in the press as the ‘Titanic Orphans’ (Titanic orphan, red.).
Michel Navratil has since stated to the media that he had, his father and brother not been on the second grade, they had probably not survived.
the Titanic was the future place in history as the worst shipwreck in peacetime and in addition to numerous books and documentaries about the sinking, know the most probably disaster from the film version from 1997.
the Ship lay from the land in Southampton in the Uk 10. april 1912, heading for New York in the UNITED states, but sunk after it encountered an iceberg 20 minutes before midnight 14. april.
