The death of the second oldest person in the world at the age of 116. Her youngest daughter is 93 years old and has 13 children and grandchildren

Poland's Tekla Uniewicz, the world's second-oldest person, died Friday at the age of 116, her grandson told Polish TVN24.

Tekla Univits was born in 1906 in Krupsko, a village in the Lviv region (present-day Ukraine) that was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Uniwiec, who was 12 when her country gained independence in 1918, is the oldest person in Polish history.

Until World War II, Yonewice lived in her region, which passed to Poland in the interwar period, next to her husband, who ran mines and shops.

The Yonewitz family then went into exile in southwestern Poland, following the annexation of Lviv by the Soviet Union in 1945.

The municipality of Gliwice (southwest), where Univice has lived since 1945, said in a statement that "Tekla Univice remained independent until its 113th year (...), she loved cinema, history programs, card games (...), reading, the company of others, and travel. ".

Leonefits has 5 great-grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren, while her youngest daughter, 93, is still alive.

French Lucille Randon, 118, remains the dean of humanity since the death of Japanese Ken Tanaka on April 19 at the age of 119, according to the list of elderly people created by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

After the death of Tekla Univitz, 115-year-old Hispanic-American Maria Brañas Moreira will become the world's second-oldest person, according to GRG.