World’s oldest man, a Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

Kristal was born to an Orthodox Jewish family near the town of Zarnow in Poland in 1903. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Kristal was confined to the ghetto there and later sent to Auschwitz and other concentration camps. His first wife and two children were killed in the Holocaust 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 has said. 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 yesterday. 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. “When he was a child during World War I in Poland he was a helper for a booze smuggler, he used to run barefoot in the...