Israel Kristal revealed no secrets to a long life, but was always on the go, his grandson said Abir Sultan/EPAThe world’s oldest man has died at the age of 113, his family confirmed today. Israel Kristal, who was born in Poland, lived through both world wars and survived Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. His first wife and two children were killed in the Holocaust. Last year Mr Kristal celebrated his bar mitzvah, 100 years late, after missing out because of the First World War. “When he was a child during World War One in Poland, he was a helper for a booze smuggler.

Source: The Times August 12, 2017 17:02 UTC