Rose Girone

 

Rose Girone, the oldest Holocaust Survivor, has died.

She was born Rose Raubvogel in Janów Lubelski, the Russian Empire (today Ivano-Frankove, Ukraine) on January 13, 1912.

The Family moved to Hamburg, Germany.

In 1938 Rose married Julius Mannheim before moving to Breslau, Germany.

Shortly after relocation, the Nazis launched Kristallnacht, and Mannheim was sent to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.

Rose acquired a Visa to flee to Shanghai, China, and Mannheim was released under the condition that they would leave Germany and give the Nazis all their valuables.

Their Daughter, Reha, was born in 1939.

During their time in China, Girone sold knitted wear and survived the Japanese Occupation of Shanghai living in the Stateless Foreigners’ Ghetto.

The Family moved into a tiny, cockroach-infested room under the staircase of an apartment building that had once been a bathroom.

 In 1947 (shortly before the Communists took over China) the Family was granted a Visa for the United States, travelling first to San Francisco before settling in Queens, New York

Following her divorce from Mannheim in 1968, Rose married Jack Girone, with the two opening a knitting shop in Rego Park, Queens, with a second following in Forest Hills.

Rose spent the remainder of her life operating the knitting business.

Rose Girone died on February 24, 2025, at the age of 113 years.