Rose Girone, oldest living Holocaust survivor, dies at 113
(AP) — Rose Girone, believed to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor and a strong advocate for sharing survivors’ stories, has died. She was 113.
She died Monday in New York, according to the Claims Conference, a New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
“She just was a terrific lady,” her daughter, Reha Benicassa, said by phone Friday. “Nothing was too hard. She wasn’t fearful. She was an adventurous person. She did well.”
Girone was born on Jan. 13, 1912, in Janow, Poland. Her family moved to Hamburg, Germany, when she was 6, she said in a filmed interview in 1996 with the USC Shoah Foundation.