Rose Girone, previously the oldest-living Holocaust survivor, died on Monday at age 113.

The supercentenarian died of old age in a Long Island, New York nursing home, according to her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
Girone attributed her longevity to her daughter and eating dark chocolate.
Born in 1912, Polish-born Girone’s family owned a theatrical costume shop in Hamburg, Germany. At 26 years old, she moved to Wroclaw with her then-husband, Julius Mannheim, who was taken by Nazis to the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Girone and Mannheim were able to flee from Germany in 1939 to Shanghai, China, where she sold knitwear. In 1947, at age 35, they received a U.S. visa and moved to San Francisco before settling down in Queens, New York.
Rose remarried to Jack Girone and opened a knitting shop in Queens, eventually opening a second shop in Forest Hills, New York. She worked and taught knitting until age 102.
She is survived by her daughter, Reha, and her granddaughter, Gina Bennicasa.




