Kristal, who is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the oldest man alive lost the opportunity to have it at the prescribed age of thirteen due to events that happened during the World Wars.

He only had a chance to start his life following the end of World War 2, where he was held as a prisoner at Auschwitz, a Nazi camp in German-occupied Poland where Jews and other innocent people who opposed the Nazi occupiers, were kept.

These innocent people include Poles, the second largest group of people killed during the holocaust.

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Hundred years later, Kristal thinks it is better late than never as he holds his Bar Mitzvah among family and friends.

The ceremony is a Jewish tradition organized when a boy comes of age.

It is at this point that such a person is held accountable for his actions.

At the age of 113, the old man already has two children, nine grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.

He lives happily with them in Haifa, Israel.