Steinberg Goldie
Main achievement
Supercentenarian. One of the longest-living ladies on the planet. She lived 114 years and 290 days.
About
She was the sixth oldest living person in the world (aged 114 years and 290 days) and the second oldest living person in the United States, after Susannah Mushatt Jones. She is the longest-lived person ever born in Moldova and the longest-lived Jewish person in the world. Biography Goldie Steinberg was born in Chișinău, Bessarabia, Russian Empire (today in the Republic of Moldova), one of eight children of Chazkel and Devorah Gurfinkel. In 1923, she emigrated to the United States with her family. In 1932, she married Philip Steinberg. Her husband, who worked as a jeweler on Fulton Street, died in 1967. By her 113th birthday, Goldie Steinberg had two children: a son (b. 1935) and a daughter (b. 1942), four grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. In her later years, she lived in Long Beach, New York, United States.
