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Michalina Wasilewska
Michalina Wasilewska
Birth: 21 December 1898
Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland)
Death: 3 January 2010
Warsaw, Poland
Age: 111 years, 13 days
Country: PolandPOL
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Michalina Wasilewska (21 December 1898 – 3 January 2010) was a Polish supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography

Michalina Wasilewska was born in Warsaw's Wola district, the capital of Poland on 21 December 1898. She worked as a janitor at the Technical School of Mechanical Engineering. Michał Konarski at Okopowa Street for many years. During the Warsaw Uprising, she stayed in Żoliborz. From the late 1970s until her death, she lived in Wilanów. She had two sons and a daughter with her husband who died in September 1939. On 1 December 2008, after the death of 111-year-old Ludwika Kosztyla, she became the oldest living Polish woman. She is thought to have been the oldest person in Poland at the time of her death, as well as the last surviving person in the country born in the 1800s.

Wasilewska died on 3 January 2010 in Warsaw, Poland at the age of 111 years and 13 days. She had eight grandchildren, sixteen great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.

Her age was verified by GRG-Poland Correspondent Waclaw Jan Kroczek, and (posthumously) validated by the GRG on 19 May 2016.

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Poland's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Rozalia ObrebskiKatarzyna KosiorowskaStanislawa SobeckaMarianna TetkowskaStefania BartkowskaMichal ZatorskiKatarzyna SwiderAnna LamaczFilipina NiewiadomskaRozalia MilczarekMaria BastaRozalia DyrczKatarzyna WilkowaKlara SpitzenfeilAnna WolanskaJan MichalskiFrument JaroszynskiBeata BrylAnna TomeckaWlodzimierz RogoszJan SzarpalaKarolina LuckoZofia MartyniakMaria UnijewskaMarta PiekarskaWladyslaw RatmanAgnieszka WojcikHelena KonowalStefania GrabalaJozefa MordaczJadwiga Zolotucho • Anna Klim • Franciszek KarwowskiMarianna Smolarczyk • Ludwika Kosztyla • Michalina Wasilewska • Wanda Wierzchleyska • Marianna Misiewicz • Jozefa KarczewskaJozefa Stanislawa Szyda • Marianna Mroz • Aleksandra Dranka • Jozefa Bak • Ludwika Wasowicz • Jadwiga Mlynek • Jadwiga SzubartowiczTekla JuniewiczWanda SzajowskaJozefa CiesielskaJadwiga Zak-Stewart

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