Alexander Imich

Imich stated that, at age 15, he and the rest of his class joined the Polish forces to fight the Bolsheviks in 1918. His older brother reportedly served as an instructor in the automobile division, so Imich learned to drive trucks for the army until the Bolshevik forces were pushed back and Imich returned to school. ==Academic career==

He earned a PhD in zoology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1929, Alexander Imich was already mentioned in a couple of psychist English-language books and journals as early as 1933 and 1934. ==World War II==

During World War II, Imich and his wife Wela (pronounced Vela) fled to Soviet-occupied Białystok, where he was employed as a chemist.{{cite news|author=Winter Miller|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/nyregion/27neediest.html|work=The New York Times ==Life in the United States==

In 1952, Imich and Wela (who died in 1986) emigrated to the United States, first to Pennsylvania and then to New York, dividing their time between both places. To make a living, Imich initially took up chemistry, but once Wela made a career for herself as a psychologist in 1965, he turned to parapsychology. In 2012, he began to transfer the records of his research into the paranormal to the University of Manitoba Department of Archives and Special Collections. or shortly before his 111th birthday—with him spending his 111th birthday in the New York City's Roosevelt Hospital. After his release from Roosevelt Hospital, Imich belatedly celebrated his 111th birthday either in late April or early May 2014. After being the world's oldest living man for approximately six weeks, Alexander Imich died on June 8, 2014, at 9:03 AM from natural causes aged 111. He was succeeded as the world's oldest man by Sakari Momoi of Japan (who was born on February 5, 1903, just one day after Imich). Imich donated his body to Mount Sinai Medical Center for medical research. ==Notes==