PR dla Zagranicy
Anna Bierzańska 20.02.2012 08:00
Apolonia Lisowska, a resident in an old people’s home run by the Felician Sisters in Warsaw, celebrated her 112th birthday
Born near Grodno, now in Belarus, Apolonia Lisowska recalled how, after the region’s incorporation into the Soviet Union in the wake of World War Two, she and her husband were deported to southern Kazakhstan in Soviet Russia. After returning to Poland in the late 1950s, she worked in a sweets factory, before ultimately moving to Warsaw in the early 1970s.
Mrs Lisowska has an eighty three-old daughter and two grandchildren. Last year she moved into the old people’s home.
Asked about her recipe for a long and healthy life, Apolonia Lisowska said: “To be close to God”. Thanks to daily exercises, she is in pretty good condition. One of her aunts died at the age of 102.
All in all, there are 478 centenarians living in the Warsaw area and about 4,400 nationwide. Men account for just a third of them. All hundred-year-olds receive an extra social security allowance of 2, 822 zlotys (about 650 euros). (mk/nh)
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