Guinness World Records named Israel Kristal the
oldest living man in the world at 112 years and
178 days old . Born in 1903 , Kristal lived through
both World Wars and survived Auschwitz in the
1940 s . He is now located in Haifa , Israel .
“ I don’ t know the secret for long life , ” he said upon
receiving his Guinness World Records certificate
Friday . “ I believe that everything is determined
from above and we shall never know the reasons
why. There have been smarter, stronger and better
looking men than me who are no longer alive. All
that is left for us to do is keep on working as h
ard
as we can and rebuild what is lost . ”
Kristal ’ s family was affected by the Nazi invasion
of Poland and was relocated to a ghetto in 1939 .
Born into a Jewish Orthodox family , he lost his
wife and two children in the Holocaust and was
the only in his entire family to survive .
Kristal ’ s predecessor, a Japanese man named
Yasutaro Koide, died in January at the age of 112
years and 312 days . The oldest living person in
the world is Susannah Mushatt Jones at 115
years and 249 days old . She lives in New York .
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