Rose Girona, who is believed to be the oldest living survivor of the Holocaust and a strong advocate of sharing the survivors of the survivors, died. She was 113 years old.
Died on Monday in New YorkAccording to a conference on requests, a New York conference on the claims of Jewish material against Germany.
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“Rose was an example of the courage, but now we are obliged to continue in her memory,” said Greg Schneider, the Executive Vice President of the Conference on claim, on Thursday. “Holocaust lessons must not die with those who suffered suffering.”
Girone was born on January 13, 1912 in Janow, Poland. Her family moved to Hamburg in Germany when she was 6, she said in a recorded interview in 1996 with the USC Shoah Foundation.
When asked by an interviewer if there were any special career plans before Hitler, she said: “Hitler came in 1933, and then it was over.”
Girona was one of about 245,000 survivors who still lived in more than 90 countries, according to a study published last year by a conference on requests. Their number decreases quickly because most are very old and often of low health, with the middle age of 86.
Six million European Jews and people from other minorities were killed by Nazis and their associates during the Holocaust.
“This passage reminds us of the urgency of sharing the Holocaust lessons as we still have witnesses firsthand with us,” Schneider said. “Holocaust Locks from memory to history, and the lessons are too important, especially in today’s world, so that they can be forgotten. “
Girone married Julius Mannheim in 1937 by a marriage.
She was pregnant for 9 months in Breslau, who is now Wroclaw, Poland, when the Nazis arrived to take Mannheim to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Their family had two cars, so she asked her husband to leave the keys.
Jens-Christian Wagner (R), Director of Memorials Memorials Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora, talks with participants at the Roll Call Memorial Square at the Buchenwald Memorial 27 January 2025. (Martin Schutt/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
She said she remembered that one Nazi said, “Take that woman too.”
Another Nazi replied, “She is pregnant, leave her alone.”
The next morning, her father -in -law was also taken, and she was left alone with her hostess.
After her daughter Reha was born in 1938, Girone was able to secure Chinese visas from his relatives in London and ensure her husband’s release.
In Genoa, Italy, when Reha was only 6 months old, they boarded a ship to Japanese Shanghai, with a little more than clothing and a little linen.
Her husband first made money by buying and selling used goods. He saved to buy a car and started a taxi job, while Girone knitted and selling sweaters.
But in 1941, Jewish refugees were rounded up in the ghetto. Three families were forced to push into the bathroom in the house, while cockroaches and bugs in bed crawled through their things.
Her sacred came just before the beginning of World War II, but became ill and died. They had to wait in line for food and lived under the rule of the ruthless Japanese who called himself the “king of Jews.”
“People have done really awful things,” Girona said of Japanese military trucks patrolling the streets. “One of our friends was killed because he wouldn’t move fast enough.”
The information about war in Europe was circulating only in the form of rumors, because the British radio was not allowed.
When the war ended, they started receiving mail from Girone’s mother, grandmother and other relatives in the US. With their help, they boarded a ship in San Francisco in 1947 with only $ 80, which Girone hid inside the button.
They arrived in New York in 1947. She later started a braid trade with her mother.
Girone also reunited with his brother, who went to France to school and eventually received his citizenship in the US, joining the army. When she went to the airport for him in New York, it was the first time she had seen him in 17 years.
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Girone later divorced Mannheim. In 1968, she met Jack Girone, the same day her granddaughter was born. Until next year, they were married. He died in 1990.
When asked in 1996 for a message she would like to go for her daughter and granddaughter, she said, “Nothing is so bad that something good should come out of it. No matter what.”
