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September 17, 2016
Soon, after 100 years, Mr. Israel Kristal will finally become a man
World’s Oldest Man to Have Bar Mitzvah - Neatorama During World War II, Kristol’s two children died during the family’s confinement in the Lodz ghetto.He and his wife were sent to Auschwitz in 1944, where she died. When the Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945, Kristol weighed only 37 kilograms (81 pounds). Within a few years, he remarried, emigrated to Haifa, Israel, and had two more children. He now has dozens of descendants. And soon he will have the bar mitzvah he was denied during the Great War. His daughter, Shulamith Kristal-Kuperstoch, told CNN that Kristal's long-delayed bar mitzvah would be held close to his Hebrew birthday, which falls this year on October 2.
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Etch that date on the wall of your heart, besides the others.
Those reminders help to prevent heart failure.
Posted by: Howard Nelson at September 18, 2016 6:56 PM
I bet he's delighted that he's not going in for a late bris.
Posted by: Jack at September 19, 2016 6:46 AM
Another "survivor"
Surely someone can find some fucker who died.
Posted by: Bill Jones at September 19, 2016 4:02 PM