Rose Girone, who once credited her longevity to dark chocolate, survived the Nazi horror of Kristallnacht and her husband’s time at a concentration camp to eventually move with her family to the

Several films have tackled the topic of Holocaust memory in recent years, including 2025 Oscar nominees The Brutalist and A Real Pain.

New Yorker Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor in the world, died on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, at 113. Born in Poland, Girone fled Nazi persecution in 1939 with her husband, who had been incarcerated at the Buchenwald concentration camp,

In January, I traveled with thirty-five of my colleagues in Holocaust education to Poland for the 80 th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. This trip was arranged for members of the Association of Holocaust Organizations and led by renowned Holocaust scholar and professor, Rabbi Michael Berenbaum.

Lauren Moyer, a social studies teacher at Fairfield Warde High School, visited Auschwitz, Krakow and Warsaw with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation.

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.

Rose Girone, believed to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor and a strong advocate for sharing survivors' stories, has died. She was 113.

Do not be indifferent,” he was known to say, as he advocated for education, Holocaust survivors and Righteous Gentiles.