GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Antoni Dobrowolski, age 108, died in Debno, Poland, a historian at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum said Monday 22 October. Dobrowolski was a teacher who gave secret classes, when education was banned by the Germans who had taken over Poland in the second world war. He was arrested in 1942 and sent [...]
Rosa Rein, oldest Swiss woman, dies at 112
February 15, 2010 by
Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Rosa Rein, who would have turned 113 in March, has died in a nursing home in canton Ticino. She was Switzerland’s oldest person and, according to wikipedia, one of the 15 oldest “verified” people in the world. When she celebrated her birthday in 2009 she was still able to walk, [...]
