Girone was born in 1912 as Rose Raubvogel in Janów, Poland. Her family lived briefly in Vienna before moving to Hamburg, Germany and setting up a theater costume shop. Girone recalled sliding down the railings of the building’s two-story staircase and learning to knit from one of her aunts. Today she is the oldest Holocaust survivor.
She is 112 years old and a Holocaust survivor. Images of the war and German cruelty remain with her to this day
Girone was eight months pregnant with her daughter Reha, when the persecution of Jews began, she fled the city with her mother and uncle. In 1939, her cousin sent her a Chinese visaand Girone used it to free her husband and leave Nazi Germany a few weeks later to begin her journey to Shanghai.
Once the family settled, they had to trade in bedding and trinkets to find money to live on, and eventually had to rely on humanitarian aid agencies for monetary assistance.
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Rose Girone on her 110th birthday screenshot from the YouTube video ‘110-year-old Holocaust Survivor Rose Girone’
In 1947, the family received a visa to the United States. Girone hid the cash in her handmade sweaters and took it aboard the ship to San Francisco. The family then took a train to New York, where Girone was reunited with her mother, brother and grandmother. They stayed in a hotel as part of a refugee settlement program, and Girone worked as a handicraft instructor.
The woman claims that she lives long enough to thumb her nose at Hitler. He enjoys his health and time with his family
Both Reha’s daughter Rose and her mother, even in these “terrible times”, find solace in the fact that they survived their Nazi persecutors and continue to receive compensation from the German government. Their ability to persevere and thrive in the face of adversity serves as a powerful reminder of the resilience of the human spirit and is a symbol of victory over Germany.
Source: longeviquest.com
Source: Gazeta
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