And Ms Schwarz was back playing table tennis in Melbourne on Monday morning.

Karin Zafir said her aunt was impressed with the begonia displays at Ballarat Botanical Gardens in the weekend stay and loved the walk by the lake, if not for the cold and wind that chilled her fingers.

Ms Schwarz travelled to Ballarat with Melbourne-based Jewish community service organisation B'nai B'rith largely to mark the 160^th celebrations for the city's Jewish synangogue, which is the oldest active shule on the Australian mainland.

While Ms Schwarz does not typically use her walker, she brought it to Ballarat because she wanted to do plenty of exploring, including a heritage walking tour.

Her lap of the lake was coincidentally after the Ballarat Cycle Classic's big lake walk and rides on Sunday.

This comes about six months after Ms Schwarz was released from Cabrini hospital having survived the deadly coronavirus.

Ms Schwarz had been in hospital for more than a month after falling ill in Melbourne's second wave. Her hospital stay included two weeks living on oxygen.

She celebrated her 98^th birthday days after arriving home.

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Doctors have also praised Ms Schwarz's fitness as a key factor in her strong response.

Ms Schwarz hails from Vienna in Austria. She survived three Nazi concentration camps - Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen - and multiple labour camps before liberation.

She was taken to Sweden to recuperate before migrating to Australia in 1946.

Three years later, she married her childhood sweetheart and they made Melbourne their permanent home in 1952.

Ms Schwarz likes to live independently, still driving, playing plenty of table tennis and bridge and going for walks.

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