Goldie Steinberg, reported to be the world’s oldest Jewish person, died this week aged 114.

Mrs Steinberg - who was also the sixth-oldest person in the world - was born in 1900 in what is now Moldova, and survived the 1903 Kishinev pogrom in which 49 Jews died and 500 were injured over two days.

Recalling the pogroms in an interview in 2013, Mrs Steinberg said: “We were saved by a Russian neighbour who made sure nothing would happen to us. He told them that we weren’t Jewish.”

One of eight siblings, Mrs Steinberg moved to New York in 1923 where she married and had two children. She worked as a seamstress until she was 80 and lived independently until the age of 104.

Peter Kutner, Mrs Steinberg’s grandson said of his grandmother, in an interview with Chabad.org: “My grandmother’s life — surviving the pogroms, losing siblings in the Holocaust — it was a history lesson.”