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Rose Girone
Rose Girone
Birth: 13 January 1912
Janów, Austria-Hungary (now Ivano-Frankove, Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine)
Death: 24 February 2025
New York, New York, USA
Age: 113 years, 42 days
Country: UkraineUKRUnited StatesUSA
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Rose Girone (née Raubvogel) (13 January 1912 – 24 February 2025) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She was oldest known person living in the U.S. state of New York as well as the oldest known living emigrant in the world at the time of her death.

Biography[]

Girone was born in the village of Janów, Austria-Hungary (present-day Ivano-Frankove, Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) as Rose Raubvogel on 13 January 1912.

In 1938, she married Julius Mannheim in an arranged marriage. Later that year, they moved to Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) just as Kristallnacht started violence against Germany's Jews. Julius got arrested, and Girone briefly fled the city with her mother. In 1939, she fled Germany to Shanghai, China. Conditions in Shanghai were difficult for her. Later that year, she was able to knit clothes for her child. Later, a Jewish entrepreneur saw what she made and they both made money. In 1941, Japan forced the Jews in Shanghai to move into a ghetto. In 1947, she and her family got a visa to the United States, where she lived until her death.

In 1968, she married Jack Girone. In 1980, she sold her knitting business.

In January 2022, she celebrated her 110th birthday and became a supercentenarian.

Girone became the oldest known living person in the U.S. state of New York, following the death of 112-year-old Louise Levy on 17 July 2023.

She became the oldest living emigrant in the world, following the death of Maria Branyas Morera on 19 August 2024.

Girone died from old age in Bellmore, Nassau County, New York, USA on 24 February 2025 at the age of 113 years, 42 days..

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