Oldest Holocaust Survivor Dies in U.S. at 113
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
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Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
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Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
adj/ akl/
Rose Girone, believed to be the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died in New York, JTA reported. Girone, who turned 113 in January, was born in what is now Ukraine and fled to China before World War II. She was a strong woman, her daughter said.
Girone died on Monday.
The cause of her death was advanced age, said her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone was born Rose Raubvogel in 1912 to a Jewish family in Janów, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). She and her family moved to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in the then German city of Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
By obtaining a Chinese visa, she managed to escape from Germany to Shanghai with her husband, who had been dragged out of the camp, and her newborn daughter. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in a ghetto.
Rose later recalled that her family and herself were saved by her passion for crocheting, which provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. In the Shanghai ghetto, she made clothes for her little daughter in this way, and eventually began selling her products.
In 1947, the family moved to the United States, where Rose later divorced and remarried. She moved several times and finally settled in New York, where she ran knitting shops and taught crocheting. At age 68, she sold her business but did not stop knitting. After her husband died, she lived alone, and at age 103, she moved to a nursing home near where her daughter and granddaughter lived.
"She was a strong, resilient woman, she coped as best she could in terrible circumstances; she was very balanced, very common sense, she helped me in everything," her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
Jerzy Adamiak (PAP)
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