World’s oldest man, a Holocaust survivor, dies at 113
JERUSALEM — Israel Kristal, the world’s oldest man who lived through both World Wars and survived the Auschwitz concentration camp has passed away just a month short of his 114th birthday, his family said Saturday.
Oren Kristal, a grandson, said he died Friday. “He managed to accomplish a lot. Every year he lived was like a few years for somebody else,” Oren told The Associated Press.
Last year Guinness World Records awarded Kristal a certificate as the world’s oldest man at his home in Haifa, Israel.
Kristal was born to an Orthodox Jewish family near the town of Zarnow in Poland in 1903.