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On the morning of 27 October 2018, a gunman killed 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the deadliest attack ever on Jews in the United States. Police took a 46-year-old man named Robert Bowers into custody in connection with the massacre, whom law enforcement officials said had targeted Jews online and made anti-Semitic comments during the shooting. News outlets ran profiles of the victims of the mass shooting, one of whom was a 97-year-old woman named Rose Mallinger, who was said to have attended the synagogue 'almost without fail' for decades': Shortly afterwards, some news accounts and commenters on the tragedy began adding a note of irony to the sorrow by asserting that Rose Mallinger was a Holocaust survivor. For example, one popular social media post sadly asserted: A 97 year-old Holocaust survivor was killed for being Jewish yesterday. In the United States. Let that sink in. However, although Rose Mallinger may have lived through the Holocaust in a temporal sense, she wasn't a survivor of that genocide in the sense of having been in the custody of those who perpetrated it or present in any of the areas where it took place, as noted in more thorough news reporting on her life: And People magazine, for example, updated their initial list of the victims to note that This article originally incorrectly identified Rose Mallinger as a Holocaust survivor. Others with a personal connection to Rose exhorted the public to stop spreading misinformation about her: According to other reports, however, one Holocaust survivor did narrowly escape being caught up in the mass shooting because he was a few minutes late to synagogue that day:
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