A New York woman who evaded the 1918 Spanish flu and beat cancer is now celebrating a brand-new triumph. More than a century after living through her first major pandemic, the 101-year-old was diagnosed with the CCP virus. Incredibly, she has survived.
The daughter of Italian immigrants, Angelina Friedman was born in 1918 on a ship headed from Italy to New York City, according to her daughter, Joanne Merola, as reported by WPIX. Sadly, Friedman’s mother died during childbirth, and the little girl was raised by her two older sisters until their father arrived in the United States and the family moved to Brooklyn.
