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His two children died in the ghetto, while Kristal and his wife were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp during the liquidation of the ghetto in August 1944. [contradictory] Kristal's wife was murdered in Auschwitz; he worked as a forced laborer and survived. When the camp was liberated by the Red Army, Kristal weighed 82 pounds (37 kg). [7]
Yisrael Kristal (1903–2017), the world's oldest living man in 2016–2017 and among the ten oldest verified men ever. Was deported from the Lodz Ghetto to Auschwitz in August 1944 but barely managed to survive—with him being severely emaciated and near-death at the time of his liberation by Red Army troops in January 1945.
Born in 1903, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian Yisrael Kristal was the oldest living Holocaust survivor and briefly the oldest living man before his death in 2017 at age 113.
Kristal, Yisrael: M September 15, 1903 August 11, 2017 (aged 113) Poland/Israel Lapid, Tommy: M December 27, 1931 June 1, 2008 (aged 76) Yugoslavia/Israel Leiber, Judith: F January 11, 1921 April 28, 2018 (aged 97) Hungary Meijers, Clara: F August 27, 1885 October 13, 1964 (aged 79)
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Alice Herz was born in Prague, in the Kingdom of Bohemia (a part of Austria-Hungary) in the modern-day Czech Republic, to Friedrich and Sofie "Gigi" Herz.Herz's family was part of the small German-speaking minority of assimilated Jews in Prague, although Herz stated that she also spoke Czech.
Kristal was also a Holocaust survivor, and was born two months before Herz-Sommer. Comment: For readers with short-term memory deficits. Working out 10 + 3 In the article Turpin case: From 1988 to 2015, they had 13 children total; ten daughters and three sons. Comment: To save our readers mental strain. In the article George Mikan:
Hannah is Mel’s eldest. She was born on Nov. 24, 1980, in Australia; the first of her parents’ seven children together. According to People, she worked as a production assistant on her dad’s ...