On June 8th, Alexander Imich, the world’s oldest man died at the age of 111, reports the Washington Times. Imich, recently declared the oldest living man by, died peacefully in his Upper West Side apartment in New York City. Imich had previously attributed his long life to a nutritious diet, exercise, and very limited consumption of alcohol.

According to the Huffington Post, Imich experienced a very full life. He described his life as having encompassed major changes in the world, such as the development and mass production of commercial flights, the automobile, the electrification of nations, the telephone, radio, television, atomic energy, the wonders of bio-scientific medicine, computer technology, great advances in our knowledge of the cosmos, and men walking on the moon.

Imich, born in 1903 in Poland, later married a woman named Wela. When the Nazis took over, the couple fled in 1939. After refusing Soviet citizenship in Russia, Imich and his wife were sent to a Gulag, or labor camp. Released from the camp at the end of World War II, the couple discovered that the majority of their family members had died in the Holocaust.

Imich and his wife then emigrated to the United States in 1951. In the United States, Imich found success in his passion for paranormal study, and became a pioneer in the field. He had a collection of forks and spoons that, he claimed, had been bent using the power of the mind, also known as macropsychokinesis.  Continuing to show his vigor at the age of 92, Imich published a book entitled, Incredible Tales of the Paranormal. Imich’s doctorate degree in chemistry and fluency in five languages are further proof of his accomplished life.  He is survived by his friends.