Rose Girone, believed to be oldest living Holocaust survivor, dies aged 113

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Rose Girone, believed to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor and a strong advocate for sharing survivors’ stories, has died. She was 113. She died on Monday in New York, according to the Claims Conference, a New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. “She just was a terrific lady,” her daughter, Reha Benicassa, said by phone on Friday. “Nothing was too hard. She wasn’t fearful. She was an adventurous person. She did well.” Girone was born on 13 January 1912 in Janow, Poland. Her family moved to Hamburg, Germany, when she was six, she said in a filmed...