New York, March 1 -- Rose Girone, believed to be the oldest Holocaust Survivor, has died at the age of 113, the New York Times reported, citing her daughter and fellow survivor, Reha Bennicasa.

Rose, who breathed her last at a nursing home in North Bellmore, New York, was born as Raubvogel on January 13, 1912, in Janow, Poland, to Klara Aschkenase and Jacob Raubvogel. The family later settled in Hamburg, Germany, and started a costume business.

She married Julius Mannheim in 1938 in an arranged marriage. The couple moved to Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) that year, not long before Mr. Mannheim and his father were arrested and sent to Buchenwald (concentration camp) in Germany.

Girone fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby o...