Surviving Auschwitz oldest man in the world

It can happen.

Last week the Japanese Yasutaro Koide died at 112 years of age, until that moment, the oldest man. Kristal lost him. In September, he will be 113 years old.

Yisrael Kristal was born in Poland on September 15, 1903. He came with his wife and two children into the Lodz ghetto. His children died in the ghetto and his wife did not survive Auschwitz. Crystal took off in 1950 with his second wife and son Chaim to Israel, where he was in Haifa, as well as in Poland, again began a candy factory.