The Polish Tekla Juniewicz, the second oldest person in the world, He passed away this Friday at the age of 116.according to what his grandson told the Polish television network TVN24.
Juniewicz nation in 1906 in Krupsko, a town in the Lviv region (now Ukraine), which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
When Poland became independent in 1918, Juniewicz was 12 years old. Until the start of World War II, lived with her husband in her native regionannexed to Poland in the interwar period.
Following the annexation of the Lviv area by the Soviet Union in 1945, the family fled to southwestern Poland.
“Tekla Juniewicz he was independent until he was 103 years old (…), he liked the cinema, history programs, card games (…), reading, the company of others and travel”, recalls the municipality of Gliwice (southwest) in a statement. , where Juniewicz had lived since 1945.
Juniewicz had five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildrenwhile his youngest daughter, 93, is still alive.
Lucille Randon, a 118-year-old French woman, is still the oldest person in the world after the Japanese Kane Tanaka died on April 19 at the age of 119, according to the list of the Gerontological Research Group (GRG) of the oldest people in the world.
According to the GRG, the second oldest person in the world is Maria Branyas Morera, a 115-year-old Hispanic-American.