Rose Girode died on Monday. “The cause of her death was advanced age” – told her daughter, Reha Bennicas. Girque was born in 1912 as Rose Raubvogel at the Jewish family in Janów in Galicia (currently Ivano-French in Ukraine).
Together with her loved ones, she went to Hamburg, and in 1938 she married and settled in German at the time Wrocław. Her husband was soon arrested and imprisoned at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
The oldest survivor of the Holocaust died. Who was Rose Girque?
Thanks to winning a Chinese visa, she succeeded with her husband and her newborn daughter pulled out of the camp run away from Germany to Shanghai. After the Japanese occupied the city, the family was forced to live in the ghetto.
Rose later mentioned that her family and she saved her herself Passion for crochetingwhich provided them with a source of income. The woman learned to knit as a child. She did in the Shanghai ghetto this way Clothes for a little daughterand sometimes she started selling her products.
In 1947, the family She went to the USAwhere Rose later divorced and got married again. She moved several times and ultimately settled in New Yorkwhere she ran knitting stores and taught crocheting. Aged 68 years has sold her businessbut she didn't stop knitting. After her husband's death, she lived alone, and in the age of 103 years moved to the nursing home near the place of residence of my daughter and granddaughter.
– she was a strong, resistant woman, she did how she could best, in terrible circumstances; was very balanced, very common sense, She helped me in everything her 86-year-old daughter said about her late mother.
International Remembrance Day about the victims of the Holocaust
January 27, 2025 We celebrated 80th anniversary of liberation German Nazi concentration camp and extermination of Auschwitz. Due to what role the Auschwitz camp played in the Nazi destruction plan, this place became a symbol of human suffering and crimes committed by Nazi Germany.
Historians estimate that during a few years of the camp's operation at least 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, as well as Poles, Roma and prisoners of other nationalities, died in it.
Therefore, on January 27, it was also established International Memorial Day about the victims Holocaust.