[1] Her father, James Henry Loewe, was a bankers' agent, community worker and scholar from Brighton while her mother, Emma née Immerwahr, had emigrated to London from Beuthen (Bytom) in Upper Silesia.
[2] At the age of 16, Rose was sent to stay with relations in Breslau, now Wrocław, where she trained as a pianist and learned to speak German.
During World War I, Rose Henriques worked as a nurse at Liverpool Street station and in World War II, she served as an air-raid warden and also organized an emergency feeding scheme for people whose homes had been destroyed in the Blitz.
[3] During the Blitz, she completed a large number of drawings and paintings of events in the East End, many of which are now held by the Museum of London.
[3][1] Upon returning to England, Henriques was the chair of the British Ose Society for promoting mental and physical health and established Workrooms for the Elderly in east London.