Feb. 27 (UPI) — Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor and someone who suffered at the hands of Germany and Japan during World War II, has died at the age 113, her daughter, Reha Bennicasa, confirmed Thursday.
Bennicasa said her mother died on February 24th at a nursing home in New York state.
Claims Conference, based in New York and which oversees compensation from Germany to victims of the Nazis, confirmed Girone was the oldest survivor.
Girone was born Rosa Raubvogel in 1912 in Poland, which at the time was part of Russia. She moved to Hamburg, Germany, during her childhood during which her family ran a theatrical costume shop.
Girone married a German Jew in 1937 and, while on the verge of giving birth, her husband was taken from their home by police and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp.
She later said while telling her story to the USC Shoah Foundation that the officers wanted to arrest her, too, but that her husband, Julius Mannheim, talked them out of it because she was pregnant with Bennicasa, who was born shortly thereafter.