World's oldest man is an Auschwitz survivor

[JustAnotherNut]

Auschwitz survivor 'world's oldest man'


© Getty Images The previous oldest man Yasutaro Koide died in January A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp is now the world's oldest man, the Guinness World Records organisation says.

Yisrael Kristal was born near Zarnow in Poland in 1903 and lived through two world wars before moving to the Israeli city of Haifa.

He was 112 years and 178 days old on 11 March, Guinness World Records says.

The previous oldest-recorded man, Yasutaro Koide of Japan, died in January aged 112 years and 312 days.

As he received his Guinness World Records certificate, Mr Kristal said he did not know the "secret for long life" and that he believed everything was "determined from above".

"There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men then me who are no longer alive," he added.

"All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost."

The son of a religious scholar, Mr Kristal was separated from his parents during World War One. He later moved to Lodz to work in the family confectionery business.

After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, Mr Kristal and his family were moved into the Lodz ghetto.

© BBC Time is running out to prosecute the few Auschwitz guards still alive
His two children died there and Mr Kristal and his wife Chaja Feige Frucht were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 after the ghetto was liquidated, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Mr Kristal's wife was murdered in Auschwitz but he survived, performing slave labour in that and other camps. When he was found by the Allies in May 1945 he weighed just 37 kg (5 stones 11 lbs).

The sole survivor from his family, Mr Kristal emigrated to Israel in 1950 with his second wife and their son, where he continued to run his confectionery business until his retirement.

His daughter, Shula Kuperstoch, said the Holocaust had not affected her father's beliefs.

"He is optimistic, wise, and he values what he has," she told the Jerusalem Post.

The oldest person alive today is believed to be an American woman, Susannah Mushatt Jones, who is 115 years and 249 days.

The oldest person ever to have lived is thought to be Jeanne Calment from France, who died aged 122 years and 164 days.

 

[DarkFury]

The fact that a person can live through that and live to be the oldest speaks to just what we ARE capable of.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

YES, exactly

 

[Lipush]

May he stay with us for many, many more dazs.

That being said, the Israeli government should start treating Holocaust Survivors better.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Auschwitz survivor 'world's oldest man'

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This is how the Universe trolls taunts and humiliates the Nazi fail....

 

[Skylar]

Auschwitz survivor 'world's oldest man'


© Getty Images The previous oldest man Yasutaro Koide died in January A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp is now the world's oldest man, the Guinness World Records organisation says.

Yisrael Kristal was born near Zarnow in Poland in 1903 and lived through two world wars before moving to the Israeli city of Haifa.

He was 112 years and 178 days old on 11 March, Guinness World Records says.

The previous oldest-recorded man, Yasutaro Koide of Japan, died in January aged 112 years and 312 days.

As he received his Guinness World Records certificate, Mr Kristal said he did not know the "secret for long life" and that he believed everything was "determined from above".

"There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men then me who are no longer alive," he added.

"All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost."

The son of a religious scholar, Mr Kristal was separated from his parents during World War One. He later moved to Lodz to work in the family confectionery business.

After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, Mr Kristal and his family were moved into the Lodz ghetto.

© BBC Time is running out to prosecute the few Auschwitz guards still alive
His two children died there and Mr Kristal and his wife Chaja Feige Frucht were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 after the ghetto was liquidated, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Mr Kristal's wife was murdered in Auschwitz but he survived, performing slave labour in that and other camps. When he was found by the Allies in May 1945 he weighed just 37 kg (5 stones 11 lbs).

The sole survivor from his family, Mr Kristal emigrated to Israel in 1950 with his second wife and their son, where he continued to run his confectionery business until his retirement.

His daughter, Shula Kuperstoch, said the Holocaust had not affected her father's beliefs.

"He is optimistic, wise, and he values what he has," she told the Jerusalem Post.

The oldest person alive today is believed to be an American woman, Susannah Mushatt Jones, who is 115 years and 249 days.

The oldest person ever to have lived is thought to be Jeanne Calment from France, who died aged 122 years and 164 days.

There's something very satisfying about the oldest man in the world being an Auschwitz survivor.

 

[FJO]

Auschwitz survivor 'world's oldest man'


© Getty Images The previous oldest man Yasutaro Koide died in January A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp is now the world's oldest man, the Guinness World Records organisation says.

Yisrael Kristal was born near Zarnow in Poland in 1903 and lived through two world wars before moving to the Israeli city of Haifa.

He was 112 years and 178 days old on 11 March, Guinness World Records says.

The previous oldest-recorded man, Yasutaro Koide of Japan, died in January aged 112 years and 312 days.

As he received his Guinness World Records certificate, Mr Kristal said he did not know the "secret for long life" and that he believed everything was "determined from above".

"There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men then me who are no longer alive," he added.

"All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost."

The son of a religious scholar, Mr Kristal was separated from his parents during World War One. He later moved to Lodz to work in the family confectionery business.

After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, Mr Kristal and his family were moved into the Lodz ghetto.

© BBC Time is running out to prosecute the few Auschwitz guards still alive
His two children died there and Mr Kristal and his wife Chaja Feige Frucht were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 after the ghetto was liquidated, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Mr Kristal's wife was murdered in Auschwitz but he survived, performing slave labour in that and other camps. When he was found by the Allies in May 1945 he weighed just 37 kg (5 stones 11 lbs).

The sole survivor from his family, Mr Kristal emigrated to Israel in 1950 with his second wife and their son, where he continued to run his confectionery business until his retirement.

His daughter, Shula Kuperstoch, said the Holocaust had not affected her father's beliefs.

"He is optimistic, wise, and he values what he has," she told the Jerusalem Post.

The oldest person alive today is believed to be an American woman, Susannah Mushatt Jones, who is 115 years and 249 days.

The oldest person ever to have lived is thought to be Jeanne Calment from France, who died aged 122 years and 164 days.

There's something very satisfying about the oldest man in the world being an Auschwitz survivor.

Maybe it is a subtle sign from God that Jews are still His Chosen People.

 

[Skylar]

Auschwitz survivor 'world's oldest man'


© Getty Images The previous oldest man Yasutaro Koide died in January A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp is now the world's oldest man, the Guinness World Records organisation says.

Yisrael Kristal was born near Zarnow in Poland in 1903 and lived through two world wars before moving to the Israeli city of Haifa.

He was 112 years and 178 days old on 11 March, Guinness World Records says.

The previous oldest-recorded man, Yasutaro Koide of Japan, died in January aged 112 years and 312 days.

As he received his Guinness World Records certificate, Mr Kristal said he did not know the "secret for long life" and that he believed everything was "determined from above".

"There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men then me who are no longer alive," he added.

"All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost."

The son of a religious scholar, Mr Kristal was separated from his parents during World War One. He later moved to Lodz to work in the family confectionery business.

After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, Mr Kristal and his family were moved into the Lodz ghetto.

© BBC Time is running out to prosecute the few Auschwitz guards still alive
His two children died there and Mr Kristal and his wife Chaja Feige Frucht were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 after the ghetto was liquidated, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Mr Kristal's wife was murdered in Auschwitz but he survived, performing slave labour in that and other camps. When he was found by the Allies in May 1945 he weighed just 37 kg (5 stones 11 lbs).

The sole survivor from his family, Mr Kristal emigrated to Israel in 1950 with his second wife and their son, where he continued to run his confectionery business until his retirement.

His daughter, Shula Kuperstoch, said the Holocaust had not affected her father's beliefs.

"He is optimistic, wise, and he values what he has," she told the Jerusalem Post.

The oldest person alive today is believed to be an American woman, Susannah Mushatt Jones, who is 115 years and 249 days.

The oldest person ever to have lived is thought to be Jeanne Calment from France, who died aged 122 years and 164 days.

There's something very satisfying about the oldest man in the world being an Auschwitz survivor.

Maybe it is a subtle sign from God that Jews are still His Chosen People.

Then the Japanese are his chosen people last year? Because that's where the oldest living man was then.

I didn't think god would be so......mercurial.

 

[FJO]

Auschwitz survivor 'world's oldest man'


© Getty Images The previous oldest man Yasutaro Koide died in January A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp is now the world's oldest man, the Guinness World Records organisation says.

Yisrael Kristal was born near Zarnow in Poland in 1903 and lived through two world wars before moving to the Israeli city of Haifa.

He was 112 years and 178 days old on 11 March, Guinness World Records says.

The previous oldest-recorded man, Yasutaro Koide of Japan, died in January aged 112 years and 312 days.

As he received his Guinness World Records certificate, Mr Kristal said he did not know the "secret for long life" and that he believed everything was "determined from above".

"There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men then me who are no longer alive," he added.

"All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost."

The son of a religious scholar, Mr Kristal was separated from his parents during World War One. He later moved to Lodz to work in the family confectionery business.

After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, Mr Kristal and his family were moved into the Lodz ghetto.

© BBC Time is running out to prosecute the few Auschwitz guards still alive
His two children died there and Mr Kristal and his wife Chaja Feige Frucht were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 after the ghetto was liquidated, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Mr Kristal's wife was murdered in Auschwitz but he survived, performing slave labour in that and other camps. When he was found by the Allies in May 1945 he weighed just 37 kg (5 stones 11 lbs).

The sole survivor from his family, Mr Kristal emigrated to Israel in 1950 with his second wife and their son, where he continued to run his confectionery business until his retirement.

His daughter, Shula Kuperstoch, said the Holocaust had not affected her father's beliefs.

"He is optimistic, wise, and he values what he has," she told the Jerusalem Post.

The oldest person alive today is believed to be an American woman, Susannah Mushatt Jones, who is 115 years and 249 days.

The oldest person ever to have lived is thought to be Jeanne Calment from France, who died aged 122 years and 164 days.

There's something very satisfying about the oldest man in the world being an Auschwitz survivor.

Maybe it is a subtle sign from God that Jews are still His Chosen People.

Then the Japanese are his chosen people last year? Because that's where the oldest living man was then.

I didn't think god would be so......mercurial.

Maybe the Japaneses are Buddha's favorite people?

Maybe the next oldest person will be a Muslim? NAH, he/she will be beheaded for daring to reach an age older than Mohammed.

 

[Skylar]

Auschwitz survivor 'world's oldest man'


© Getty Images The previous oldest man Yasutaro Koide died in January A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp is now the world's oldest man, the Guinness World Records organisation says.

Yisrael Kristal was born near Zarnow in Poland in 1903 and lived through two world wars before moving to the Israeli city of Haifa.

He was 112 years and 178 days old on 11 March, Guinness World Records says.

The previous oldest-recorded man, Yasutaro Koide of Japan, died in January aged 112 years and 312 days.

As he received his Guinness World Records certificate, Mr Kristal said he did not know the "secret for long life" and that he believed everything was "determined from above".

"There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men then me who are no longer alive," he added.

"All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost."

The son of a religious scholar, Mr Kristal was separated from his parents during World War One. He later moved to Lodz to work in the family confectionery business.

After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, Mr Kristal and his family were moved into the Lodz ghetto.

© BBC Time is running out to prosecute the few Auschwitz guards still alive
His two children died there and Mr Kristal and his wife Chaja Feige Frucht were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 after the ghetto was liquidated, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Mr Kristal's wife was murdered in Auschwitz but he survived, performing slave labour in that and other camps. When he was found by the Allies in May 1945 he weighed just 37 kg (5 stones 11 lbs).

The sole survivor from his family, Mr Kristal emigrated to Israel in 1950 with his second wife and their son, where he continued to run his confectionery business until his retirement.

His daughter, Shula Kuperstoch, said the Holocaust had not affected her father's beliefs.

"He is optimistic, wise, and he values what he has," she told the Jerusalem Post.

The oldest person alive today is believed to be an American woman, Susannah Mushatt Jones, who is 115 years and 249 days.

The oldest person ever to have lived is thought to be Jeanne Calment from France, who died aged 122 years and 164 days.

There's something very satisfying about the oldest man in the world being an Auschwitz survivor.

Maybe it is a subtle sign from God that Jews are still His Chosen People.

Then the Japanese are his chosen people last year? Because that's where the oldest living man was then.

I didn't think god would be so......mercurial.

Maybe the Japaneses are Buddha's favorite people?

Maybe the next oldest person will be a Muslim? NAH, he/she will be beheaded for daring to reach an age older than Mohammed.

I tend to not look at death or life as an indication of 'god's will'. If such were the case, then god hates anyone hurt in a natural disaster. And that's some pretty fucked up thinking.

 

[FJO]

Neither of my two posts about extraordinarily long lived seniors was an attempt to start a philosophical or theological discussion.

Just an - admittedly - weak attempt at humor.

 

[EverCurious]

I'd love to sit down and talk to this guy. I love listening to older folks' stories and tales, breaths life into history.

 

[pwjohn]

When you consider that his records, or should I say his vital statistics were generated and maintained in a part of the world that saw two world wars come and go, accuracy could be an issue. And of course we all know what came & went during the second world war. So it wouldn't have been hard for him to take on the identity of an older relative, say an uncle for example, knowing there wouldn't be anybody left alive to question his new identity.

 

[Snouter]

Maybe it is a subtle sign from God that Jews are still His Chosen People.

So yahweh allegedly incinerating 6,000,000 was an error by yahweh?

 

[FJO]

Maybe it is a subtle sign from God that Jews are still His Chosen People.

So yahweh allegedly incinerating 6,000,000 was an error by yahweh?

Obviously you missed my post when I said that my reference to God, Jews and the oldest person in the world was not to start a philosophical or theological debate, but a weak attempt at humor.

But let me just say, so that even a seemingly belligerent atheist can understand: It was not Yahweh or God who incinerated six million people, but evil men with free will to do evil.

 

[FJO]

When you consider that his records, or should I say his vital statistics were generated and maintained in a part of the world that saw two world wars come and go, accuracy could be an issue. And of course we all know what came & went during the second world war. So it wouldn't have been hard for him to take on the identity of an older relative, say an uncle for example, knowing there wouldn't be anybody left alive to question his new identity.

Gee, the world is lucky to have a self-declared doubting "expert", champion of truth, such as yourself, on the veracity of a fact, checked and verified by a well respected authority as the Guinness Book Of World Records.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Auschwitz survivor 'world's oldest man'


© Getty Images The previous oldest man Yasutaro Koide died in January A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp is now the world's oldest man, the Guinness World Records organisation says.

Yisrael Kristal was born near Zarnow in Poland in 1903 and lived through two world wars before moving to the Israeli city of Haifa.

He was 112 years and 178 days old on 11 March, Guinness World Records says.

The previous oldest-recorded man, Yasutaro Koide of Japan, died in January aged 112 years and 312 days.

As he received his Guinness World Records certificate, Mr Kristal said he did not know the "secret for long life" and that he believed everything was "determined from above".

"There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men then me who are no longer alive," he added.

"All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost."

The son of a religious scholar, Mr Kristal was separated from his parents during World War One. He later moved to Lodz to work in the family confectionery business.

After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, Mr Kristal and his family were moved into the Lodz ghetto.

© BBC Time is running out to prosecute the few Auschwitz guards still alive
His two children died there and Mr Kristal and his wife Chaja Feige Frucht were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 after the ghetto was liquidated, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Mr Kristal's wife was murdered in Auschwitz but he survived, performing slave labour in that and other camps. When he was found by the Allies in May 1945 he weighed just 37 kg (5 stones 11 lbs).

The sole survivor from his family, Mr Kristal emigrated to Israel in 1950 with his second wife and their son, where he continued to run his confectionery business until his retirement.

His daughter, Shula Kuperstoch, said the Holocaust had not affected her father's beliefs.

"He is optimistic, wise, and he values what he has," she told the Jerusalem Post.

The oldest person alive today is believed to be an American woman, Susannah Mushatt Jones, who is 115 years and 249 days.

The oldest person ever to have lived is thought to be Jeanne Calment from France, who died aged 122 years and 164 days.

I love stories like this. It is in essence this man standing behind the barbed wire at Auschwitz as Hitler, Himmler. and Goebbels walk past and thrusting his middle finger through the wire right into their faces.

 

[pwjohn]

When you consider that his records, or should I say his vital statistics were generated and maintained in a part of the world that saw two world wars come and go, accuracy could be an issue. And of course we all know what came & went during the second world war. So it wouldn't have been hard for him to take on the identity of an older relative, say an uncle for example, knowing there wouldn't be anybody left alive to question his new identity.

Gee, the world is lucky to have a self-declared doubting "expert", champion of truth, such as yourself, on the veracity of a fact, checked and verified by a well respected authority as the Guinness Book Of World Records.

Well in this case the mans claimed age which isn't excessive by the way, along his records such as they were, held up upon closer inspection..So you could be right.

 

[Hossfly]

Auschwitz survivor 'world's oldest man'


© Getty Images The previous oldest man Yasutaro Koide died in January A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp is now the world's oldest man, the Guinness World Records organisation says.

Yisrael Kristal was born near Zarnow in Poland in 1903 and lived through two world wars before moving to the Israeli city of Haifa.

He was 112 years and 178 days old on 11 March, Guinness World Records says.

The previous oldest-recorded man, Yasutaro Koide of Japan, died in January aged 112 years and 312 days.

As he received his Guinness World Records certificate, Mr Kristal said he did not know the "secret for long life" and that he believed everything was "determined from above".

"There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men then me who are no longer alive," he added.

"All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost."

The son of a religious scholar, Mr Kristal was separated from his parents during World War One. He later moved to Lodz to work in the family confectionery business.

After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, Mr Kristal and his family were moved into the Lodz ghetto.

© BBC Time is running out to prosecute the few Auschwitz guards still alive
His two children died there and Mr Kristal and his wife Chaja Feige Frucht were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 after the ghetto was liquidated, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Mr Kristal's wife was murdered in Auschwitz but he survived, performing slave labour in that and other camps. When he was found by the Allies in May 1945 he weighed just 37 kg (5 stones 11 lbs).

The sole survivor from his family, Mr Kristal emigrated to Israel in 1950 with his second wife and their son, where he continued to run his confectionery business until his retirement.

His daughter, Shula Kuperstoch, said the Holocaust had not affected her father's beliefs.

"He is optimistic, wise, and he values what he has," she told the Jerusalem Post.

The oldest person alive today is believed to be an American woman, Susannah Mushatt Jones, who is 115 years and 249 days.

The oldest person ever to have lived is thought to be Jeanne Calment from France, who died aged 122 years and 164 days.

Sally I wonder if Klara knows this guy. I would think so, especially if she goes to reunions.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

I just find it awe inspiring that this man has lived, truly lived such a long life. The stories he could tell, not just of the horrors of Auschwitz, but everything else he has experienced & survived could fill a library. And for that alone, he has my utmost respect.