Holocaust survivor Rose Girone has died. She was 113.

Girone died on the morning of Monday, Feb. 24, from previous age, in response to her daughter Reha Bennicasa, the Jewish Telegraphic Company reported. She had simply celebrated her birthday in January.

Whereas Girone is believed to be the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, in response to the Claims Convention, PEOPLE was unable to independently confirm.

In keeping with the Jewish Telegraphic Company, Girone was born in Janov, Poland, in 1912. Her household settled in Hamburg, Germany, the place they ran a theatrical costume store.

In 1938, she married Julius Mannheim in an organized marriage, and so they moved to Breslau, Germany, which is now Wroclaw, Poland, simply because the Nazis launched Kristallnacht or the Night time of Damaged Glass, widespread violence towards Germany’s Jews.

Girone was eight months pregnant when Mannheim was arrested and despatched to the Buchenwald focus camp in 1939, the Jewish Telegraphic Company reported.

After securing visas, Mannheim was launched from Buchenwald, and the household fled to Shanghai. Girone took up knitting there, which helped her when she moved to the US along with her household in 1947.

Following the transfer, Girone opened two knitting shops in Queens and knit till she was practically 102 years previous, Fox 5 New York reported.

In keeping with the Lengthy Island Herald, Girone divorced Mannheim in 1968 and married Jack Girone. Following his loss of life, she lived alone in an residence in Beechhurst, Queens, till her household determined to get her an in-home support when she was 103. On the age of 109, she was moved to a rehabilitation middle.

Final month, Girone advised the outlet that her secret to lengthy life was to “Stay daily with a objective, have wonderful kids, and eat numerous darkish chocolate.”

Whereas speaking about her mom to the Jewish Telegraphic Company, Bennicasa mentioned, “Every part that’s out there’s actually who my mom was.”

“She was a powerful woman, resilient. She made the most effective of horrible conditions. She was very level-headed, very commonsensical. There was nothing I couldn’t convey to her to assist me remedy — ever — from childhood on,” mentioned Bennicasa.

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“She was only a terrific woman… and I don’t know, when God made her, they broke mildew,” she added.