21/04/2026
Norwich, GB 6 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

ROSE GIRONE, aged 113

A victim of the Nazis she was a refugee in China and the USA, eventually setting up her own business in knitwear. She was the oldest Holocaust survivor.

YANG HUAIDING, aged 71

Rising from poverty as a factory worker, he took a gamble on China’s new stock market and became a multi-millionaire – and a national hero with it.