Titanic Last Survivor Shoebox For The First Time

Lillian Alund, the last survivor of the Titanic, died in 2006, according to the daily mail of Britain.

After her death, someone found her moving letters and archives, and will be displayed for the first time in the world.

The collection will be auctioned in April 19th and is expected to take 150 thousand pounds.

The last survivor of the Titanic has not been married for 94 years. Lillian has refused to talk about the tragedy of the life of her father and 3 brothers.

But for the rest of her life, she always remembered the scene before her family died and hid the remains of her father Carle in a shoe box of the wardrobe.

It was not until she died at the age of 99 that she discovered that the box and the collection related to Titanic were a collection of stories about the tragic tragedy of Alund's family.

Among them, Carle took notes from a leaflet (publicizing the benefits of settling in California). It is precisely this American dream that lured their family to the Titanic to find a new life.

At the same time, we found a very valuable boat ticket with water stains on this luxury cruise ship.

As most of the ship sank into the sea, only a small number of Titanic's tickets were saved.

12 days after the shipwreck, Carle's life jacket kept the pocket of his coat floating on the water. The files on his body were miraculously preserved.

He also found the time when the Titanic sank at 2:19.

Together with a heartbreaking letter written by his grieved mother, she formed part of the collection. In her letter, mother expressed how much she hoped to see her son in heaven.

This amazing file includes Lillian and his mother, Felix, and his 3 year old brother, Felix, in front of his father's grave.

The collection is now being auctioned and the total auction price is expected to reach 150 thousand.

The auction made many people interested in Titanic excited because Lillian was the last survivor to remember the shipwreck.

Only milvera Dean of England lived longer than her, but Dean was a baby at that time.

Shoe box sealed up the disaster memory Andrew Henry Aldridge, the Henry Aldridge and Sons of Devizes auction house, said: "this file is of great significance to all" Titanic "collectors in the sense of Aldridge.

Lillian was the last American survivor and the last person to have a real memory of the shipwreck.

But she always avoids appearing and rarely talks openly about Titanic.

She did not marry for life. She must have left a huge scar in her heart.

Her family only knew that she survived the Titanic wreck, but she did not know the box, let alone the things in the box.

The box was placed in the oak cupboard of Edward VII in the house where Lillian used to live with Felix and her mother.

This shoe box doesn't look very special at first glance, but it's like opening up precious historical relics related to Titanic.

Most of these files are never published or seen before.

When you put them together, they tell the story of the Alund family from hoping to go to the United States, perhaps to start a new life in California until they get on the Titanic.

There are also these tearful letters and photographs, which brought the family into infinite sorrow.

The family took the Titanic in 1912, before deciding to move to Wooster, Massachusetts, the Alund family lived in southern Sweden, Al Sema.

The 40 year old worker Carle asprand bought the 7 7 class three class tickets for the first Titanic from Southampton to New York in April 10, 1912.

The 38 year old wife Hilmar and 5 children - 13 year old Philip, 9 year old Clarence, 5 year old Carle Edgar, 5 year old Lillian and 3 year old Felix - were accompanied by him.

When the ship hit an iceberg on the 14 day of April and began to sink, the Alund family decided to die with the 1500 people who died.

But according to the statement given by the later times, Felix and Lilian did not know who was thrown into lifeboat 15 at the last minute.

So Carle put his wife on the lifeboat and let her go with the two children.

Since then, the faces of her husband and 3 sons have been haunting her mind before the sinking of the ship.

The husband Carle was drowned, and after 12 days, he had caught his frozen corpse in the Atlantic, but he did not see the 3 sons.

In Carle's brown coat pocket, he found his gold watch, two small keys on the ship's safe box (with all his family's savings) and the gold ring he had married.

He also found two small notebooks from him, one of which includes some notes about starting a new life in California.

It was probably from a leaflet designed to persuade people to emigrate to California to read to his wife.

Part of it is: "California needs you. Now is the time to settle here.

At this time of year, we have green grass and wild flowers, and all the facilities you can own.

An ideal place for us to offer you.

Maybe you don't believe the weather and the city we told you.

Well, let's take a look.

Other objects found in him include a letter dated February 28, 1912, which tells Carle that he has a job waiting for him.

Carle's relic was handed over to his wife Hilmar. She also kept a letter from White Star Line dated May 11, 1912.

The letter said that they would return the remains of her late husband because they were of little value.

Aldridge said, "this letter says that those things are not worth the money, but ironically, where do they know how valuable these things are now?"

Hilmar kept a touching letter written by her mother-in-law Christina Samuelson after 16 months in shipwreck.

The letter said, "because I cry too much, my spirit is not good, my eyes are not good, but I hope this heartbreaking day will soon end. I do not want anyone to experience this kind of grief. God promised to wipe all the tears for all."

In April 15, 1964, 52 years after the shipwreck of the Titanic, Hilmar, 91, died.

After her death, Lillian put her mother's wedding ring in the shoebox next to her father's gold ring.

In 1983, Felix, 73, died and Lillian died in 2006.

The auction will be held in April 19th.