Oldest Polish woman dies at 113

Jadwiga Żak-Stewart, believed to be Poland’s oldest living woman, has died at the age of 113, regional authorities said on Monday.

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Żak-Stewart died after spending her final years in the central city of Łódź, where she returned after nearly three decades in the United States.

Her death was announced by the provincial government.

Born on July 15, 1912, in Warsaw, Żak-Stewart lived through both world wars. After World War II, she settled in Łódź, where she lived until the early 1980s.

During Poland’s period of martial law, she emigrated to the United States and eventually settled in Indianapolis, where she worked for many years at a local hospital.

She returned to Poland at the age of 100, choosing to spend the final years of her life in Łódź, a city with which she maintained close ties.

She was married twice and had two sons from her first marriage.

Since August 2023, Żak-Stewart had been recognised as the oldest living person in Poland.

Following the deaths of other Polish supercentenarians, she was believed to be the country’s only remaining person born before World War I.

“Her beauty and sensitivity will remain in our memory forever,” the Łódź regional authorities said in a statement mourning her death.

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Source: tvp.info

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