World's oldest man and Holocaust survivor dies in Israel aged 113

A Holocaust survivor recognised as the world's oldest man has died in Israel aged 113 years and 330 days.

Israel Kristal, the world's oldest man, has died in Israel at the age of 113.

Israel Kristal, the world's oldest man, has died in Israel at the age of 113. Source: Kristal family

Holocaust survivor Israel Kristal, who last year was recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living man, has died in Israel aged 113.

Guinness said Kristal was born in Poland on September 15, 1903, and survived the Auschwitz death camp, where his first wife, two children and other family members were killed by the Nazis.

He married again after the war and moved to Israel in 1950.

Kristal was awarded a Guinness certificate as the world's oldest man on March 11, 2016, when he was 112 years and 178 days old.

He died on Friday in the northern port city of Haifa aged 113 years and 330 days, Israeli reports said.

Jeanne Calment, a French woman, had the longest confirmed human lifespan, according to Guinness. She died in 1997 at the age of 122.


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Published 12 August 2017 7:52am
Updated 12 August 2017 11:28am
Source: AAP


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