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.

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?”

(WJW) – 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, according to her daughter, Reha Bennicasa, was old age.

Girone was born on January 13, 1912, in Janow, Poland. She was one of approximately 245,000 survivors still living in 90 countries.. Polish Rose Girone, considered the oldest Holocaust survivor, died on Thursday at 113 in New York,

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.