- Date Of Birth: April 10, 1922
- Date Of Death: October 17, 2016
- State: Virginia
Rose Reichner Nemerow On October 17, 2016 in Manassas, Virginia, Rose Nemerow passed away after months of failing health in hospice care. Rose began her life on April 10, 1922, in Kushnice, Czechoslovakia in a rural community speaking Yiddish and Czech. Life was hard with no running water in a house her grandfather built, while her father Israel worked as a tailor and her mother, Anna, raised vegetables and livestock. One of Rose’s enduring memories is sneaking into the hen-house early in the morning in her bare feet to steal and eat a raw egg. After being sponsored by her mother’s sister aunt Goldie and at age seven Rose and her mother began a month’s long journey to Ellis Island, which included a voyage on the Steamship Olympic that arrived May 1930. Her father Israel had already immigrated soon after Rose’s birth, again working as a tailor and initially was a stranger to Rose. While growing up in Brooklyn and the Bronx life could be difficult for a single attractive strawberry blond girl, Rose had learned English quickly in elementary school while being teased by classmates.
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