World's oldest man dies at 113

The world's oldest man, Kristal from Israel who lived through both world wars and survived the Holocaust, died on Friday, at the age of 113, a month short of his 114th birthday.

He died on Friday in the northern port city of Haifa aged 113 years and 330 days, Israeli reports said.

Kristal was awarded a Guinness certificate as the world's oldest man on March 11, 2016, when he was 112 years and 178 days old.

According to the Guinness, Kristal was born in Poland on September 15, 1903. During World War II he was sent to Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps and survived the Auschwitz death camp as the only survivor of his large Jewish family, where his first wife, two children and other family members were killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust.

Marco Frigatti, Head of Records for Guinness World Records, presents Yisrael Kristal a certificate for being the oldest living man in 2016

He married again after the war and moved to Israel in 1950 where he built a family and a confectionary business.

Jeanne Calment, a French woman, had the longest confirmed human lifespan, according to Guinness. She died in 1997 at the age of 122.