World's oldest man dies aged 113

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The world’s oldest man, Yisrael Kristal, also an Auschwitz survivor, died at the age of 113 at his home in Haifa, Israel on Friday.

Yisrael Kristal. /AFP Photo

Kristal, who was certified last year by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest man, died on August 11 just one month before he was due to turn 114.

He was born in Poland on Sept 15, 1903, which is three months before the Wright brothers’ first successful airplane flight. And he survived the Auschwitz death camp, where the Nazis killed his first wife, two children, and other family members. He married again after World War II and moved to Israel, where he opened a candy shop 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.

Guinness World Records’ website said that on receiving his certificate at his home in the northern Israeli city of Haifa last year, Kristal did not explain his longevity.

He said: “I don’t know the secret for long life. I believe that everything is determined from above and we shall never know the reasons.”

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Source(s): Reuters