Oldest living Polish woman turns 114 on Wednesday

Tekla Juniewicz, the oldest living Polish woman, will turn 114 on Wednesday. She resides in Gliwice (southern Poland), and is the oldest living woman in north-eastern Europe and in the Baltic region, the third oldest person in Europe and the eighth oldest in the world. Juniewicz was born on June 10, 1906, in Krupsk, a locality situated in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, in today's Ukraine. In 1945, after the end of WWII, her family was repatriated from the territory of the Soviet Union and settled in Gliwice.