Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor, passed away at 112. A resilient witness to Nazi atrocities, she later built a new life in the U.S. Following her death, Mirjam Bolle, 107, is now the oldest known survivor.

Rose Girone, believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor, passed away as announced by the New York-based Claims Conference on Thursday. Born in Poland in 1912, she died on Monday at a nursing home in Bellmore, New York, according to CNN. Her daughter, Reha Bennicasa, remembered her as a strong, resilient woman who was always level-headed and resourceful, while the Israeli embassy in Berlin described her life as a testament to survival and strength.

Girone was born in Janov—a town now in modern-day Poland but part of Germany at the time—and moved to Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) with her husband, Julius Mannheim, in 1938 during the Kristallnacht pogrom. She witnessed the Nazis burn synagogues and Jewish books. When she was eight months pregnant, her husband was arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, but he was later released. The couple then fled to Shanghai on a Chinese visa before settling in New York in 1947. After divorcing in 1948, she later married Jack Girone and became known as a knitting entrepreneur after opening several knitting shops in the United States. Rose Girone also spoke publicly about her experiences during the Nazi era.

Of the roughly 220,000 Holocaust survivors still alive, about 14,000 reside in New York. Following Girone's death, Mirjam Bolle is now considered the oldest living Holocaust survivor; the Dutch-born Israeli will turn 108 on March 20.