Rosie Aronwald was a longtime resident of the Home Of The Daughters Of Jacob elderly care home located in Manhattan. She was admitted to the home on January 18th, 1905.
From a 1908 New York Times interview she had told a story of her childhood of when she met the famous leader Napoleon Bonaparte. She told this on her 107th birthday when reporters came to attend the celebration at the home. Rosie's birthday celebration was mentioned across the US through newspapers.
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"Mrs. Aronwald told a famous story of how she met Napoleon just a hundred years ago this spring, when she was only seven years old. 'It was after the Treaty of Tilsit,' she said, 'and Napoleon was practically ruler of Warsaw, although the Duchy was nominally under the control of the House of Saxony. A Polish suspect, arrested for probable plotting against the government, had been condemned to be hanged. I went to him and begged that the man be not killed. 'He took me by the hand and said, 'Why, little girl, do you ask me? Why come to me?' 'And I, who was just seven years old, said, 'Because you are the head man here. You can have the man not hanged when you say so.' " The story by this time had tired Mrs. Aronwald, so the old ladies, who, apparently, know the story as well as does the heroine herself, finished in a chorus: 'Yes, so the man was not killed, because she saved his life.' "
Reported by the Omaha Daily Bee
Omaha, Nebraska
07 Jun 1908, Sun
From a 1908 New York Times interview she had told a story of her childhood of when she met the famous leader Napoleon Bonaparte. She told this on her 107th birthday when reporters came to attend the celebration at the home. Rosie's birthday celebration was mentioned across the US through newspapers.
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"Mrs. Aronwald told a famous story of how she met Napoleon just a hundred years ago this spring, when she was only seven years old. 'It was after the Treaty of Tilsit,' she said, 'and Napoleon was practically ruler of Warsaw, although the Duchy was nominally under the control of the House of Saxony. A Polish suspect, arrested for probable plotting against the government, had been condemned to be hanged. I went to him and begged that the man be not killed. 'He took me by the hand and said, 'Why, little girl, do you ask me? Why come to me?' 'And I, who was just seven years old, said, 'Because you are the head man here. You can have the man not hanged when you say so.' " The story by this time had tired Mrs. Aronwald, so the old ladies, who, apparently, know the story as well as does the heroine herself, finished in a chorus: 'Yes, so the man was not killed, because she saved his life.' "
Reported by the Omaha Daily Bee
Omaha, Nebraska
07 Jun 1908, Sun
Rosie Aronwald was a longtime resident of the Home Of The Daughters Of Jacob elderly care home located in Manhattan. She was admitted to the home on January 18th, 1905.
From a 1908 New York Times interview she had told a story of her childhood of when she met the famous leader Napoleon Bonaparte. She told this on her 107th birthday when reporters came to attend the celebration at the home. Rosie's birthday celebration was mentioned across the US through newspapers.
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"Mrs. Aronwald told a famous story of how she met Napoleon just a hundred years ago this spring, when she was only seven years old. 'It was after the Treaty of Tilsit,' she said, 'and Napoleon was practically ruler of Warsaw, although the Duchy was nominally under the control of the House of Saxony. A Polish suspect, arrested for probable plotting against the government, had been condemned to be hanged. I went to him and begged that the man be not killed. 'He took me by the hand and said, 'Why, little girl, do you ask me? Why come to me?' 'And I, who was just seven years old, said, 'Because you are the head man here. You can have the man not hanged when you say so.' " The story by this time had tired Mrs. Aronwald, so the old ladies, who, apparently, know the story as well as does the heroine herself, finished in a chorus: 'Yes, so the man was not killed, because she saved his life.' "
Reported by the Omaha Daily Bee
Omaha, Nebraska
07 Jun 1908, Sun
From a 1908 New York Times interview she had told a story of her childhood of when she met the famous leader Napoleon Bonaparte. She told this on her 107th birthday when reporters came to attend the celebration at the home. Rosie's birthday celebration was mentioned across the US through newspapers.
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"Mrs. Aronwald told a famous story of how she met Napoleon just a hundred years ago this spring, when she was only seven years old. 'It was after the Treaty of Tilsit,' she said, 'and Napoleon was practically ruler of Warsaw, although the Duchy was nominally under the control of the House of Saxony. A Polish suspect, arrested for probable plotting against the government, had been condemned to be hanged. I went to him and begged that the man be not killed. 'He took me by the hand and said, 'Why, little girl, do you ask me? Why come to me?' 'And I, who was just seven years old, said, 'Because you are the head man here. You can have the man not hanged when you say so.' " The story by this time had tired Mrs. Aronwald, so the old ladies, who, apparently, know the story as well as does the heroine herself, finished in a chorus: 'Yes, so the man was not killed, because she saved his life.' "
Reported by the Omaha Daily Bee
Omaha, Nebraska
07 Jun 1908, Sun
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