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Tekla Juniewicz (born Tekla Dadak; 10 June 1906 – 19 August 2022) was a Polish
supercentenarian
A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is a person who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of major age-related diseases ...
who, until her death at the age 116 years and 70 days, was the second oldest living person in the world (after Lucile Randon
Lucile Randon (; born 11 February 1904), also known as Sister André (), is a French supercentenarian. At the age of , she has been the world's oldest verified living person since 19 April 2022, following the death of Kane Tanaka. She is the old ...
) for four months, upon the death of Kane Tanaka
was a Japanese supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of , was the Oldest people#Chronological list of the oldest known living person since 1955, world's oldest verified living person following the death of Chiyo Miyako on 22 July 20 ...
. She is the oldest Polish person in history.
Biography
Personal life
Tekla Juniewicz (née Tekla Dadak) was born on 10 June 1906 in Krupsko, then in Austria-Hungary, now inUkraine
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and was baptised in the local Greek Catholic church The term Greek Catholic Church can refer to a number of Eastern Catholic Churches following the Byzantine (Greek) liturgy, considered collectively or individually.
The terms Greek Catholic, Greek Catholic church or Byzantine Catholic, Byzantine Ca ...
on the same day. Her father, Jan Dadak, worked for count Lanckoroński and her mother, Katarzyna, was a housewife who died during World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...
. Juniewicz married Jan Juniewicz in 1927, with whom she had two children. They moved to Borysław, which was then a town in eastern Poland
Eastern Poland is a macroregion in Poland comprising the Lublin, Podkarpackie, Podlaskie, Świętokrzyskie, and Warmian-Masurian voivodeships.
The make-up of the distinct macroregion is based not only of geographical criteria, but also economic ...
, but is now part of Ukraine
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. In 1945, when the area was annexed by the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
, she left the territory along with her husband and daughters and settled in Gliwice
Gliwice (; german: Gleiwitz) is a city in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland. The city is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Kłodnica river (a tributary of the Oder). It lies approximately 25 km west from Katowice, the regional cap ...
, formerly the German city of Gleiwitz.
Death
Juniewicz died on 19 August 2022, due to a stroke and heart complications. Her funeral was held on 23 August 2022, four days after her death. She was buried in Gliwice, the city in which she had lived for most of her life. The Prime Minister of Poland,Mateusz Morawiecki
Mateusz Jakub Morawiecki (; born 20 June 1968) is a Polish economist, historian and politician who has served as prime minister of Poland since 2017. A member of Law and Justice (PiS), he previously served in the cabinet of prime minister Beata ...
, attended the funeral. She was the last validated person born in 1906.
Family
Juniewicz had two daughters, five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. Juniewicz's fourth great-great-granddaughter, Iga Tekla, was born on 10 June 2021, her 115th birthday. Her grandchildren looked after her until her death.See also
*List of the verified oldest people
These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest people sorted in descending order by age in years and days.
The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 12 ...
References
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