Acusaciones, gritos y un final abrupto

Atriles vacíos, tras la cancelación de la conferencia de prensa que debían dar Trump y Zelenski. Foto. EFE

Rose Girone, believed to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor and a strong advocate for sharing survivors’ stories, has died. She was 113.

She died Monday in New York, according to the Claims Conference, a New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

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«Rose was an example of fortitude but now we are obligated to carry on in her memory,» Greg Schneider, Claims Conference executive vice president, said in a statement Thursday. «The lessons of the Holocaust must not die with those who endured the suffering.»

Girone was born on January 13, 1912, in Janow, Poland. Her family moved to Hamburg, Germany, when she was 6, she said in a filmed interview in 1996 with the USC Shoah Foundation.

When asked by the interviewer if she had any particular career plans before Hitler, she said: «Hitler came in 1933 and then it was over for everybody.»

Girone was one of about 245,000 survivors still living across more than 90 countries, according to a study released by the Claims Conference last year. Their numbers are quickly dwindling, as most are very old and often of frail health, with a median age of 86.

Six million European Jews and people from other minorities were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust.

«This passing reminds us of the urgency of sharing the lessons of the Holocaust while we still have first-hand witnesses with us,» Schneider said. «The Holocaust is slipping from memory to history, and its lessons are too important, especially in today’s world, to be forgotten.»

Girone married Julius Mannheim in 1937 through an arranged marriage.

She was 9 months pregnant living in Breslau, which is now Wroclaw, Poland, when Nazis arrived to take Mannheim to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Their family had two cars and so she asked her husband to leave his keys.

She said she remembers one Nazi saying: «Take that woman also.»

The other Nazi responded: «She’s pregnant, leave her alone.»

The next morning her father-in-law was also taken and she was left alone with their housekeeper.

After her daughter Reha was born in 1938, Girone was able to secure Chinese visas from relatives in London and secure her husband’s release.

In Genoa, Italy, when Reha was only 6 months old, they boarded a ship to Japan-occupied Shanghai with little more than clothing and some linens.

Her husband first made money through buying and selling secondhand goods. He saved up to buy a car and started a taxi business, while Girone knitted and sold sweaters.

But in 1941, Jewish refugees were rounded up into a ghetto. The family of three were forced to cram into a bathroom in a house while roaches and bed bugs crawled through their belongings.

Her father-in-law came just before World War II started but became sick and died. They had to wait in line for food and lived under the rule of a ruthless Japanese man who called himself «King of the Jews.»

«They did really horrible things to people,» Girone said of the Japanese military trucks that patrolled the streets. «One of our friends got killed because he wouldn’t move fast enough.»

Information about the war in Europe only circulated in the form of rumors, as British radios were not allowed.

When the war was over, they began receiving mail from Girone’s mother, grandmother and other relatives in the U.S. With their help, they boarded a ship to San Francisco in 1947 with only $80, which Girone hid inside buttons.

They arrived in New York City in 1947. She later started a knitting store with the help of her mother.

Girone was also reunited with her brother, who went to France for school and ended up getting his U.S. citizenship by joining the Army. When she went to the airport to pick him up in New York, it was her first time seeing him in 17 years.

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Girone later divorced Mannheim. In 1968, she met Jack Girone, the same day her granddaughter was born. By the next year they were married. He died in 1990.

When asked in 1996 for the message she would like to leave for her daughter and granddaughter, she said: «Nothing is so very bad that something good shouldn’t come out of it. No matter what it is.»

European leaders came out with sweeping support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy following the explosive Oval Office meeting in which President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance gave harsh reprimands and accused him of being «disrespectful.»

Several leaders took to social media to back Ukraine and to remind Washington that Russian President Vladimir Putin is the Russia-Ukraine conflict’s «aggressor,» not Zelenskyy. 

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European Union

The EU’s chief diplomat, Kaja Kallas, had some of the strongest words of rebuke for Trump and said, «We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the aggressor.» 

«Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader,» she added.  «It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.»

France

«There is an aggressor: Russia. There is a victim: Ukraine,» said French President Emmanuel Macron, who just met with Trump this week in D.C. «We were right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago – and to keep doing so.» 

«By ‘we,’ I mean the Americans, the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese, and many others,» he added.  

United Kingdom

Though UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer, who also met with Trump this week, has remained publicly silent following the geopolitical fallout, the leader of the U.K.’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, showed her support for Ukraine.

«Respectable diplomacy is essential for peace,» she said in a post on X. «We need to remember that the villain is the war criminal President Putin who illegally invaded another sovereign country – Ukraine. 

«A divided West only benefits Russia,» she continued. «Any peace agreement must be negotiated with Ukraine at the table, and will need security guarantees. We cannot lose sight of the fact that tonight air raid sirens are sounding in Ukraine.»

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 28, 2025 in Washington, DC.  (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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Norway

«What we saw from the White House today is serious and disheartening,» Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said in a statement according to Reuters. «Ukraine still needs the US’s support, and Ukraine’s security and future are also important to the US and to Europe. 

«That Trump accuses Zelenskyy of gambling with World War III is deeply unreasonable and a statement I distance myself from,» he said. «Norway stands with Ukraine in their struggle for freedom.» 

Poland

«Dear Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone,» said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on X.

Germany

Germany’s new conservative leader, incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz, who has said he seeks «independence» from the U.S., said, «Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, we stand with Ukraine in good and in testing times. We must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war.»

Notably, nations that typically stand strong with Trump, like Turkey’s Recep Erdogan and Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, did not release a public statement following the day’s events. 

Trump and Zelensky met today to negotiate a preliminary agreement on sharing Ukraine’s mineral resources that Trump says will allow America to recoup aid provided to Kyiv while supporting Ukraine’s economy.  (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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Russia

Though Russian officials did voice their support for how the day unfolded.

Former Russian President and current deputy chair of Russia’s security council, Dmitry Medvedev, took to X to call Zelenskyy an «insolent pig» and claimed he «finally got a proper slap down in the Oval Office.» 

«And Donald Trump is right: The Kyiv regime is ‘gambling with WWIII’,» he  added. 

Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau threw his weight behind Ukraine as well and said, «Russia illegally and unjustifiably invaded Ukraine. 

«For three years now, Ukrainians have fought with courage and resilience,» he added, suggesting NATO allies may back Kyiv over Washington. «Their fight for democracy, freedom, and sovereignty is a fight that matters to us all. Canada will continue to stand with Ukraine and Ukrainians in achieving a just and lasting peace.»