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A cigarette box of silver that liberated a Jewish man from the Lodz ghetto has turned up in Poland.

Woodstock is next year in the top 3 tourist regions recommended by Lonely Planet. The legendary hippie festival then celebrates its 50th anniversary.

The oldest man in the world, Yisrael Kristal, who survived the Holocaust, died in Haifa on Friday at the age of 113. The newspaper Haaretz recalled that he celebrated his 'bar mitswah' last year, the ceremony and ratification of religious adulthood. That was a century later than usual for a Jewish boy. He missed that celebration at the time of the First World War.

It can happen. Yisrael Kristal was arrested at the age of forty by the Germans in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz with his wife, a place where a human life was worth nothing. But he survived the extermination camp and the year 2016 is the former candy merchant at 112 years of age, against all expectations, the oldest man in the world.