102-year-old Holocaust survivor dies after visiting White House

Rosalee Glass, a Holocaust survivor famous by President Donald Trump during a White House Hanukkah party, has died following injuries postulated during transport to Washington, D.C.

Glass died in Los Angeles on Dec. 14 of a blood clot to her heart. She was 3 weeks bashful of her 103rd birthday.

She was incidentally forsaken while being ecstatic in a wheelchair to a craft in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, on her approach to Washington for a White House event, her daughter Lillian Glass pronounced in a post on Facebook. Her arm was harmed in a tumble and swelled up, though a alloy privileged her to fly to Washington a subsequent day.

“We are profoundly respected to be assimilated this afternoon by Rosalee Glass, a survivor of a Nazi Holocaust, a darkest section of tellurian history,” Trump pronounced during a Dec. 11 Hanukkah party. “After a war, Rosalee came to America and started a blind production business. Now she has created a book, starred in an award-winning film and is going clever during a age of 102.

“Where is Rosalee? Where is — hi. You’re looking good,” he continued. “Thank you, Rosalee. Thank we for being here. It’s an honor. And we do — we unequivocally fill a hearts with open joy, Rosalee. In respect of Rosalee and a millions of Jews who suffered inconceivable persecution, we replenish a oath now and always: Never again. Never again.”

Glass and her daughter took a print with Trump during a White House.

Glass was a theme of a 2018 documentary done by her daughter called “Reinventing Rosalee.” She also is a author of “Rosalee Glass: 100 Years of Wisdom to Guide You Thru Life’s Ups and Downs.”

Born Raisla Talerman in 1917 in Warsaw, Poland, Glass started creation men’s shirts in her teens. She married her father during a age of 18, and after a fight with a Nazi infantryman they transient to a Russian-controlled partial of Poland. Later they were arrested and sent to a jail stay in Siberia. Their immature son Elias died in a camps, as did a daughter, Perla.

A son, Manny, survived, and after a fight they were sent to a replaced persons stay in Germany. The family immigrated to Miami in 1951.

Glass started her possess blind production business for 3 decades. She became an singer during 82, appearing in commercials and in a existence show.

She was predeceased by her husband, Abraham, and her son.