PHOTO | Letter from Titanic orphans: Their father kidnapped them and took them to the doomed ship

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One of the children who survived the sinking of the Titanic wrote a letter in which he described in detail what he remembered about the accident.

In the four-part documentary "Titanic: Stories from the Deep", the story of Michel Navratil, whom, together with his brother, their father took to the "Titanic".

The brothers from France, Edmond и Michel Navratil they were two and four years old when their father kidnapped them from their mother Marcela and put them on the Titanic.

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On the fourth day of the voyage, the ship hit the icy shore.

Navratil, a second-class passenger, quickly took his boys out and put them in a lifeboat. That boat was the last to successfully leave the sinking ship, and Edmond and Michelle last saw their father.

"After the tragedy, the brothers got the nickname in the media""Orphans from the Titanic", because they were the only children rescued without a parent or guardian.

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The documentary series shows Michelle's granddaughter Elizabeth reading a letter Michelle wrote as a child describing how she experienced what happened.

"My father woke me up. He carried me in his arms. My brother and I were put in a boat. It was already full of passengers. Dad told Mom to convey his love to her, and then he left us. I remember the moment the boat went down from the Titanic. The noise when he fell into the water. And the moment he started walking away from the ship. I remember waking up in the boat. The sea was white and blue, and in the distance there was a ship," Michel wrote.

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"My child, when your mother comes for you, tell her that I loved her and that I still love her." "Tell her that I expected her to come after us so that we can all live happily in the peace and freedom of the New World," his father told him.

When the Carpathian lifeboat arrived an hour and a half after the Titanic sank, Michelle and Edmond were taken aboard.

French-speaking traveler Margaret Hayes took care of the two children until their mother, Marcel, found them.

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Marcel saw photos of her sons in the newspapers, where they were mistakenly named Louis and Lola, so she traveled by boat to New York and on May 16, 1912, met her children again and brought them back to France.

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