The world’s oldest man: a survivor of Auschwitz who is 112

The human body and the human spirit are amazing things. I regularly marvel at how some people who have suffered so much can live so long.

A case in point is Israel Kristal, a citizen of Haifa in Israel. He has just been confirmed as the world’s oldest documented living man, but he is a an Auschwitz survivor who was rescued from the brink of death by the allies in May 1945, weighing only 37 kg.

Israel Kristal, aged 112 and 178 days on 11 March, was handed a certificate at his home by a representative of the Guinness World Records confirming him as the oldest known man on the planet.

Kristal succeeded 112-year-old Yasutaro Koide of Japan, who died earlier this month.

You can read more about this remarkable man here.


 




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