A Long Island woman, believed to be the world's oldest survivor of the Holocaust, passed away at the age of 113.
Rose Girone, who once praised her longevity for dark chocolate, survived her husband's time in the Nazi horror and concentration camps in Crystal Nacht, and eventually moved to America with her family. Kin said it flourished.
“She made the most of the terrible situation. According to Jewish media, Girone's daughter, Reha Benicasa, said:
Zilone was born in the village of Janov in eastern Poland in 1912 and moved to Hamburg, northern Germany as a child with his family.
In 1938 she married her first husband, the German Jewish man Julius Mannheim, and the couple, on the infamous night of fatal violence against German Jews, the Nazis launched Crystal Nacht, in Poland. We have moved to Breslau city in Volau.
She was eight months pregnant when her husband was arrested by the Nazis and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1939.
“My father was in a concentration camp when I was born,” Benicasa said. I told Fox 5 Last month, to celebrate my mother's 113th birthday.
“They allowed my dad to leave on the condition that we would pay them and leave within six weeks,” Benicasa said.
The family was able to secure visas and fled to Shanghai, a Chinese city that won over 20,000 Jewish refugees during World War II.
So Girone took up knitting. This is a hobby that ultimately became her profession.
The family moved to the United States after the war in 1947, and she opened two knitting shops in Queens.
For the past decade she has lived at Bella Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in North Bellmore. He died peacefully on Monday morning.
Girone was survived by her daughter Benicasa and granddaughter Gina.
“She always said that the secret to her longevity is her love of eating dark chocolate,” her granddaughter told the Long Island Herald last month.
“She has a good child and she has a purpose. She always said to me, “There is always a purpose in life. Get up, there is always a purpose.”
