Alexander Imich at 111 years old / Guinness Book of World Records Ray Bradbury, in his classic 1955 story “The Last, the Very Last,” has a child encounter a 108-year-old man believed to be the last known Civil War veteran. The story, reworked as a chapter in his novel Dandelion Wine, introduces the veteran to…
Alexander Imich, the Polish-born American Jewish parapsychologist who died over the weekend at age 111, suggested that belief, or even credulity, might be a key to longevity. Imich, a Holocaust survivor who lived in New York, was considered the oldest man on earth at the time of his death. A devotee of the Israeli-born illusionist…
The world’s new oldest man was born just 24 hours after Alexander Immich, the New York Holocaust survivor who died over the weekend. The ranking now goes to Sakari Momoi of Japan, born on Feb. 5, 1903, one day after Imich, according to the Gerontology Research Group of Torrance, California. Dozens of women were older…
Alexander Imich, a Holocaust survivor cited as the world’s ‘oldest man,’ has reportedly died at 111. Imich died peacefully at his home in a New York-area assisted living facility Sunday, NBC News reported. Imich, who was born in Poland in 1903 and survived a Soviet Gulag, emigrated to the United States in the 1950s. He…
(Reuters) — The world’s oldest living man is a 111-year-old scholar of the occult who calls New York City his home. Alexander Imich, who was born in Poland in 1903 and survived a Soviet Gulag, emigrated to the United States in the 1950s. He turned 111 in February and assumed the “oldest living” title last…
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