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25/02/2025 1:04 am
Ms. Rose Girone of Bellmore, Nassau County, New York, United States sadly passed away on 24 February 2025 at the age of 113 years and 42 days.
She was born on 13 January 1912 on Janów, Ukraine.
She was the oldest living Holocaust survivor and one of the oldest Jews in the world.
On 17 July 2023, following the death of 112-year-old Louise Levy, she became the oldest known living person in the U.S. state of New York.
She was the 5th documented OLP in the USA.
Rest in peace, Ms. Girone.
http://www.supercentenariditalia.it/persone-viventi-piu-longeve-in-italia.
Persone viventi più longeve in Italia – Supercentenari d'Italia (supercentenariditalia.it)
25/02/2025 1:41 am
May she RIP. 🙁
Quite interesting that Jews tend to overperform among the oldest Polish-born people ever! Israel Kristal, Rose Girone, Maria Gerstman, Alexander Imich, et cetera. I wonder if there is something to Ashkenazi Jewish genetics that makes an increased lifespan for them more likely, including at extreme ages. (I'm 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish myself, so this comment is NOT meant to be offensive AT ALL!)
25/02/2025 8:15 am
🕊 Rest in eternal peace, Ms. Rose Girone (1912-2025).
25/02/2025 9:15 am
She was born on 13 January 1912 on Janów, Ukraine.
I double-checked and apparently her place of birth is in present-day Ukraine, not Poland?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivano-Frankove
https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/Rose_Girone
Though it was a part of Poland in the interwar era, in between the two World Wars. But she herself was born before the start of World War I, when it was still a part of Austria-Hungary (specifically Austria).
25/02/2025 10:04 am
Rest in peace Ms Rose Girone.
25/02/2025 2:19 pm
Sad news. Rest in peace, Rose Girone.
Just as it appears to be very hard for men from the USA to reach 111 in recent years, age 113 seems to be the final one for a lot of American women lately.
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GRG Correspondent for Hungary (2020-2023)
Tracker and researcher of Hungarian and other Central European (super)centenarians (since 2016)
Enthusiast of extreme longevity (since childhood)
27/03/2025 3:51 am
She is the 42nd oldest emigrant of all time, the oldest person born in 1912 to die to date, the 4th oldest Central European emigrant to die, the 186th oldest person to die in the US, the 482nd oldest person in world history, the 23rd oldest European emigrant in history, and the 25th oldest living person in the world.
She died at the same age as
Henry Allingham 6 June 1896 18 July 2009 UK
RIP
