Polish Tekla Juniewicz, the second oldest person in the world, died Friday at the age of 116, her granddaughter told TVN24 in Poland.
Juniewicz was born in 1906 in Krupsko, a village in the Lviv region (now Ukraine), which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Juniewicz was 12 years old when Poland became independent in 1918. Until the beginning of the Second World War, she lived with her husband in their homeland, which was annexed to Poland in the interwar period.
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“Tekla Juniewicz was independent until she was 103 (…), she loved movies, history shows, card games (…), reading, befriending other people and traveling”, a statement from the municipality of Gliwice ( southwest), Juniewicz’s 1945 where he has lived since.
Juniewicz had five great-grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Her youngest daughter, 93, is still alive.
According to the Gerontological Research Group’s (GRG) list of the world’s oldest people, 118-year-old French woman Lucille Randon remains the world’s oldest person after Japanese Kane Tanaka passed away at the age of 119 on April 19.
The second oldest person in the world, according to GRG, is 115-year-old Latin American Maria Branyas Morera.
source: Noticias
