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.
Jesse Eisenberg, who says he reconnected with his family’s Polish roots while filming A Real Pain in the country, was granted Polish citizenship yesterday by President Andrzej Duda. "While we were filming this movie in Poland and I was walking the streets and starting to get a little more comfortable in the country,
Lauren Moyer, a social studies teacher at Fairfield Warde High School, visited Auschwitz, Krakow and Warsaw with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation.
Rose Girone, believed to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor and a strong advocate for sharing survivors' stories, has died. She was 113.
From influential platforms, Mr. Turski, an Auschwitz survivor from Poland, warned the world of rising antisemitism and the perils of indifference to it.
Holocaust survivor Rose Girone died at the age of 113 on the morning of Monday, Feb. 24, according to her daughter Reha Bennicasa.
Do not be indifferent,” he was known to say, as he advocated for education, Holocaust survivors and Righteous Gentiles.
(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.
In a new installation at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs titled “Looming in the Shadows of Łódź,” artist Leslie Starobin presents a multimedia portrayal of loss, family and memory during and after the Holocaust.
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?”
Rose Girone, the oldest known survivor of the Holocaust, has died at 113. Her daughter, Reha Bennicasa, confirmed the news. Girone came to the U.S. in 1947 after escaping.