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Yisrael Kristal

1903 - 2017

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Yisrael Kristal (or Israel Kristal; born Izrael Icek Kryształ; Hebrew: ישראל קרישטל; 15 September 1903 – 11 August 2017) was a Polish-Israeli supercentenarian recognized in 2014 as the oldest living Holocaust survivor. After the death of Yasutaro Koide, of Japan, on 18 January 2016, he was also recognized as the oldest living man. Born in 1903 to religious parents in Maleniec, near Żarnów, then part of Poland of the Russian Empire, Kristal remained religiously observant all his life. A confectioner by profession, he experienced World War I as an early teen, and World War II as an adult. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yisrael Kristal is the 3,987th most popular politician (down from 3,622nd in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from Poland (down from 214th in 2019) and the 58th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among politicians, Yisrael Kristal ranks 3,987 out of 19,576. Before her are Binali Yıldırım, Wilhelm Gustloff, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Mizizios, Hjalmar Siilasvuo, and Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria. After her are Oskar Potiorek, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, Henry IV, Count of Luxembourg, Sigismund Báthory, Prince George of Denmark, and Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal.

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Among people born in 1903, Yisrael Kristal ranks 59. Before her are Claudio Arrau, Kenneth Clark, Georg Elser, George Davis Snell, Ernest Walton, and Alonzo Church. After her are Raymond Radiguet, Empress Kōjun, Uichiro Hatta, Vincente Minnelli, Kim Chaek, and Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 2017, Yisrael Kristal ranks 67. Before her are Harry Dean Stanton, Graham Taylor, Peter Mansfield, John Heard, Jean Rochefort, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. After her are Al Jarreau, Giovanni Sartori, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Georges Prêtre, Chris Cornell, and Piet Keizer.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Yisrael Kristal ranks 226 out of 1,694. Before her are Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Carl Wernicke (1848), Mieszko II Lambert (990), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), and Catherine Opalińska (1680). After her are Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Henryk Górecki (1933), Przemysł II (1257), Wanda Landowska (1879), and Robert Luther (1822).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Yisrael Kristal ranks 58. Before her are Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770), Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756), Frederick I of Württemberg (1754), Hans Lammers (1879), Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866), and Mieszko II Lambert (990). After her are Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Przemysł II (1257), Władysław II the Exile (1105), Hans Modrow (1928), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676).

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