Rosa Rein (née Karliner; 24 March 1897 – 14 February 2010) was a German-born Swiss supercentenarian and the oldest documented person who ever died in Switzerland.
[3][4] Rein was born in Upper Silesia in Dzietkowitz, at the time part of the German Empire, but now in Poland.
She grew up in a well to do family, with 5 brothers and sisters, on a farming estate with two dozen employees.
She went to school in neighbouring Mysłowice, and eventually went to college, which was not common for women in that period.
[5][6] She remarried in 1949 and due to her husbands failing health they moved to Genoa in 1964 before settling in Paradiso, Switzerland.