Simply amazing, Israel Kristal has lived and persevered through some of the most inhumane conditions known to man, suffered unspeakable losses, experienced all that history, and has still go on into a ripe old age with his faculties intact.
The Detroit News: Israel Holocaust survivor, 112, world’s oldest man
Guinness World Records says a 112-year-old Israeli who lived through both World Wars and survived the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz is the world’s oldest man.Guinness awarded Israel Kristal a certificate at his home in Haifa on Friday.
Congrats to Mr. Kristal, and as the saying goes, "May he live to be 120!". Adjusted for his lifespan, in his case it should probably be may he live to be 140!
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Not directly, but tangentially related, one of the privileges of my young life, in 7th or 8th grade, to meet Simon Wiesenthal. He had come to our American International School, in Vienna, to screen a documentary on the Holocaust.
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