Poland's oldest woman dies at 113

Łucja Sobolewska, Poland's oldest woman, passed away at the age of 113, few months shy of her 114th birthday. Sobolewska was born in Kosobuszczyzna near Vilnius in 1901. “My life was hard. During the second war world I lived in the forest with wolves,” she said during an interview with portal mmszczecin.pl. After the war she moved to Szczecin where she lived since 1957 till her death. When asked for a recipe for longevity, she replied: “Divine providence.” There are currently more than four thousand Poles who turned 100. The oldest of them is currently 109 years-old.