Rose Girone, believed to be the oldest known Holocaust survivor in the world, died this week at age 113, according to the nonprofit Claims Conference.

Girone died on Monday at her nursing home in Bellmore, New York, CNN reported. 

Girone was born on Jan. 13, 1912, in Janow, Poland, and moved to Hamburg, Germany, when she was 6. Married in 1937, she was nine months pregnant when her husband was arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp.

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