Tekla Juniewicz

Tekla Juniewicz (née Dadak; 10 June 1906 – 19 August 2022) was a Polish supercentenarian who lived for 116 years and 70 days.^[1] She is the oldest verified Polish person in history.^[2]

Tekla Juniewicz
Juniewicz in 2019
Born	Tekla Dadak (1906-06-10)10 June 1906 Krupsko, Austria-Hungary
Died	19 August 2022 (aged 116 years, 70 days) Gliwice, Poland
Burial place	Gliwice, Poland
Known for	Oldest Polish person ever
Spouse	Jan Juniewicz ​ ​ (m. 1927; died 1980)​
Children	2

Biography

Juniewicz in the 1930s

Personal life

Tekla Juniewicz was born as Tekla Dadak on 10 June 1906 in Krupsko, then of Austria-Hungary but now under 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

• List of the verified oldest people