Rosa Rein

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Rosa Rein (born 24 March 1897) is, at age 111[1] the current oldest person in Switzerland since the September 3, 2006 death of 110-year-old Anna Ringier-Kieser. Rein was born in Upper Silesia. A Jew,[2] her mother died in a German concentration camp and her family fled from Germany, first to Brazil, then to Genoa, and finally to Switzerland. Rein married twice, but has no children. She lived on her own until 2001, when, after a fall,[2] she decided to move to a nursing home in Lugano, where she currently still resides.[3]

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  1. ^ "Rosa Rein wird 111", Tagesanzeiger, 24 March 2008. (German)
  2. ^ a b Report on Rosa Rein's 110th birthday (German)
  3. ^ "Älteste Schweizerin ist 109 Jahre alt", NZZ Online, 24 March 2006. (German)
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