Rosa Rein

Rosa Rein (24 March 1897-14 February 2010) was born in the southern German Empire (which is now Poland.) Diring part of her life she lived in Brazil. She lived in Switzerland until her death in 2010. Rein has been the oldest living person in Switzerland since 3 September 2006, following the death of 110-year-old Anna Ringier-Kieser. Since 20 June 2008 she has held the record for being the oldest Swiss ever, still holding this record today.

Personal life
Rein was married in 1935 and she and her first husband moved to Brazil after the Holocaust in 1938 until he died. She remarried in 1949-1973 when her second husband died. She has no kids and her mother died in a German concentration camp.

Later life and death
Rein was in good health. In 2001, at the age of 104, she moved to a nursing home in Switzerland. Rein died there at the age of 112 years and 327 days. At the time of her death, she was not in the top 100 supercentenarians. She was the 26th oldest living person and 6th oldest living European.