A special note of appreciation should go to the Jewish Records Indexing in Poland for their contributions to this investigation. As a result of this international cooperation, sufficient early-life, middle-life, and late-life evidence was obtained to meet modern validation standards. Israel Kristal ...
The Shambles is an old street in York, England, and one of the best-preserved medieval shopping streets in Europe. With its cobbled streets and overhanging timber-framed buildings, It was even mentioned in the Doomsday Book of William the Conqueror in 1086, and many of the buildings on the ...
In 1920 he moved to Łódź in Poland to work in the family confectionary business. However, 20 years later Kristal would face one of the largest adversities in his life: the Nazi invasion of Poland, where Kristal was moved into the Łódź ghetto with his family in 1939. In 1943 h...
Born in Poland, near the town of Zarnow on 15 September, 1903 to parents Moszek-Dawid and Brucha Krystztal, Mr Kristal has lived through both World Wars and survived Nazi war camp Auschwitz in the 1940s before relocating to Israel. Kristal claims the title at the a...
Guinness World Records can announce 111-year-old Dr. Alexander Imich of New York City as the new oldest living man. Dr. Imich was born in in present-day Częstochowa, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire, on February 4th, 1903. In 1951, he and his wife, W...