Polish Tekla Juniewicz, the world’s second-oldest person, died Friday morning at the age of 116, her grandson told Polish television channel TVN24 on Friday.
Tekla Juniewicz was born in 1906 in Krupsko, a town in the Lviv region (present-day Ukraine), then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Independent up to 103 years
Twelve years old when Poland became independent in 1918, Tekla Juniewicz is considered the oldest person in Polish history.
Until World War II, Tekla Juniewicz lived in her home region, attached to Poland in the interwar period, together with her husband, who ran the mining operations and warehouses. The Juniewicz family later went into exile in southwestern Poland, after the Lviv region was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1945.
“Tekla Juniewicz remained independent until she was 103 years old (…), she loved movies, history shows, card games (…), reading, the company of others and travel,” he recalls in a press release the municipality of Gliwice (southwest) where Tekla Juniewicz lived since 1945.
At 93, her youngest daughter lives
Juniewicz had five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren, while her youngest daughter, 93, is still alive.
Lucille Randon, a 118-year-old Frenchwoman, remains the oldest of humanity since the death on April 19 at the age of 119 of the Japanese Kane Tanaka, according to the list of oldest people established by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) . .
Maria Branyas Morera, a 115-year-old Hispanic American, is now the second oldest person in the world, again according to the GRG.
Source: BFM TV
