Tekla Juniewicz | |
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_(cropped).jpg/1280px-Spotkanie_z_najstarsz%C4%85_Polk%C4%85_(48440088871)_(cropped).jpg) Juniewicz in 2019 | |
| Born | Tekla Dadak (1906-06-10)10 June 1906 |
| Died | (aged 116 years, 70 days) Gliwice, Poland |
| Burial place | Gliwice, Poland |
| Known for |
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| Spouse |
Jan Juniewicz
(m. 1927; died 1980) |
| Children | 2 |
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Tekla Juniewicz (née Dadak; 10 June 1906 – 19 August 2022) was a Polish supercentenarian who, living to the age of 116 years and 70 days, was the oldest living Polish person from 20 July 2017 until her death on 19 August 2022, and remains the oldest validated Polish person ever.
[1] She is the oldest verified Polish person in history.[2]
Biography
Personal life
Tekla Juniewicz was born as Tekla Dadak on 10 June 1906 in Krupsko, then in Austria-Hungary but now in Ukraine.[3] Her father, Jan Dadak, worked for count Karol Lanckoroński, and her mother Katarzyna was a housewife who died during World War I. Juniewicz married Jan Juniewicz in 1927, with whom she had two children. They moved to Borysław, which was then a town in eastern Poland, but is now part of Ukraine. In 1945, when the area was annexed by the Soviet Union, she left the territory along with her husband and daughters and settled in Gliwice, formerly the German city of Gleiwitz.[4]
Death
Juniewicz died on 19 August 2022, due to a stroke and heart complications. She was buried in Gliwice, the city in which she had lived for most of her life. The then-Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, attended the funeral.[5] She was the last validated person born in 1906.[6]
Family
Juniewicz had two daughters, five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "World's oldest person Kane Tanaka dies at 119 years-Know who is the oldest person alive now". jagranjosh.com. 26 April 2022. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ^ "Tekla Juniewicz". Gerontology Research Group. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
- ^ Wacław Kroczek (10 June 2022). "Tekla Juniewicz – Najstarsza Polka kończy 116 lat!". GazetaSenior.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ^ "Druga najstarsza Polka mieszka w Gliwicach!". Gliwice. Oficjalna strona miasta (in Polish). Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ^ "PM attends funeral of Poland's longest-living citizen". PolskieRadio.pl. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ^ "Tekla Juniewicz". LongeviQuest. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
- ^ Marlena Polok-Kin (28 June 2021). "Najstarsza Polka ma 115 lat. Pani Tekla Juniewicz wreszcie doczekała się praprawnuczki! Ale jest jeszcze jedna niesamowita informacja". Dziennik Zachodni (in Polish). Retrieved 3 September 2022.
