She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby only to be forced into a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai. Still, she would often say, “Aren’t we lucky?”

Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor who endured both German and Japanese oppression but lived for eight decades beyond the end of World War II, has died at age 113.

Holocaust survivor Rose Girone died at the age of 113 on the morning of Monday, Feb. 24, according to her daughter Reha Bennicasa.

The longtime Queens resident, who ran a knitting shop in Forest Hills, fled Poland and Germany for Shanghai before immigrating to the U.S. in 1947.

Rose Girone, who was a strong advocate for sharing the stories of Holocaust survivors, will be remembered for being "an example of fortitude" following her passing

Six million European Jews and people from other minorities were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust.

Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor and someone who suffered at the hands of Germany and Japan during World War II, has died at the age 113, her daughter, Reha Bennicasa, confirmed Thursday.

Rose Girone passed away at the age of 113 after enduring both German and Japan's oppression.As reported by CNN, she was the oldest known living Holocaust survivor, who lived for eight decades after the end of World War II.

A woman believed to be the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor has died. Rose Girone died Monday morning, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, who spoke to her daughter. Rose lived in New York. The cause,