113-Year-Old Former Shanghai Jewish Refugee Passed Away-Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum

Rose Girone, the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, passed away at 113 years old on February 24, in New York. The website of The New York Times reported on this on February 27.

Girone was born in Poland in 1912, and moved to Hamburg, Germany with her family. In 1939, her husband was arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. Girone, eight months pregnant at the time, was able to secure visas for her and her husband to escape to Shanghai, China.

During her time in Shanghai, she started making a living by knitting. In 1947, the Girone family immigrated to New York. Later, Girone partnered with others to open a knitting store in Queens and continued to work and teach knitting until she was 102 years old.

The name of Rose Girone is on the Wall of Names in the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. The Museum expressed its condolences to her with flowers.