Holocaust Survivor Rose Girone death at 113

Holocaust Survivor Rose Girone has died. She was 113.

Girone died in the morning Monday 24 February from old age, according to her daughter Reha Bennicasa, Jewish telegraphic agency reported. She had just celebrated her birthday in January.

While Girone is believed to be the world’s oldest survivor of Holocaust, according to Claim conferencePeople could not independently verify.

According to the Jewish telegraphic agency, Girone was born in Janov, Poland, in 1912. Her family settled in Hamburg, Germany, where they ran a theater costume shop.

In 1938 she married Julius Mannheim in an arranged marriage, and they moved to Breslau, Germany, which is now Wroclaw, Poland, just as the Nazis launched Crystal night Or the night with broken glass, widespread violence against Germany’s Jews.

Girone was eight months pregnant when Mannheim was arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1939, reported the Jewish telegraphic agency.

After securing a visa, Mannheim was released from Buchenwald and the family fled to Shanghai. Girone took up knitting there, which helped her when she moved to the United States with her family in 1947.

After the move, Girone opened two knitting stores in queens and knitted until she was almost 102 years old, Fox 5 New York reported.

According to Long Island HeraldGirone divorced Mannheim in 1968 and married Jack Girone. After his death, she lived alone in an apartment in Beechhurst, Queens, until her family decided to get her home help when she was 103 years old. At the age of 109, she was moved to a rehabilitation center.

Last month, Girone told the outlet that her secret to the long life was to “live every day with a purpose, have amazing children and eat lots of dark chocolate.”

When she talks about her mother to the Jewish telegraphic agency, Bennicasa said, “All that is there is really who my mother was.”

“She was a strong lady, resistant. She made the best of terrible situations. She was very even, very commodity. It was nothing I couldn’t give her to help me solve-something childhood on,” said “, said Bennicasa.

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“She was just an amazing lady … and I don’t know when God made her, they broke mold,” she added.