In Brooklyn, they called her Bubbe Maryasha, a 106-year-old Jewish grandmother who survived the pogroms of tsarist Russia, Soviet anti-Semitism, and Nazi terror.

Members of the Lubavitch Jewish community yesterday announced the death of Maryasha Garelik, the grandmother — “bubbe” in Yiddish — who survived milestone moments of the 20th century, including the Soviet execution of her husband for helping to keep Judaism alive.

She breathed her last on Wednesday night in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood after sharing her wisdom with thousands who came seeking inspiration, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, of the Lubavitch world headquarters there, said.

The Chasidic Jewish movement follows the teachings of Eastern European rabbis, emphasizing the study of Hebrew scriptures while spreading its faithful worldwide. Some of Ms. Garelik’s more than 500 descendants are Lubavitch emissaries in Australia, China, England, France, Panama, Poland, and South Africa.

Ms. Garelik was buried on Thursday at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens in a grave near the late Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the Lubavitch spiritual leader; in Russia, he was part of the same Jewish underground as the man who became Ms. Garelik’s husband.

“She was a lone person who stood up to a regime that shot her husband in cold blood in a field,” Mr. Kotlarsky said after the burial. “She was left with six children, ages 1 to 14, and she persevered and raised them by herself, with ethical and moral integrity. She was small in size — less than five feet tall — but a giant in stature.”

Ms. Garelik’s advice came from decades of trial by fire.