The world’s oldest man will celebrate his bar mitzvah 100 years late, at the age of 113, after he missed it due to the outbreak of World War I.

Yisrael Kristal was meant to have his Jewish coming-of-age ceremony back in 1916, but will instead be celebrating it in two weeks’ time to coincide with his birthday according to the Hebrew calendar.

The celebration will be held at a synagogue in Haifa, Israel, where Mr Kristal lives, and several generations of his family will be attending.

“We are excited, we’re happy, it is a great honour to celebrate his bar mitzvah,” daughter Shula Kuperstoch told the BBC.

“He has children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and cousins and everyone is coming.”

She said it would be a “corrective experience” for her father, who was officially recognised by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest man in March.

When Mr Kristal was 13 — the usual age for the bar mitzvah — there had been no-one to preside over his ceremony as his father was in the Russian army and his mother had passed away.

The bar mitzvah is a coming-of-age celebration in the Jewish faith. Photo: Getty.

He moved to the Polish city of Lodz in 1920 after WWI, but when the country was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1939 he and his family were moved into the Lodz ghetto, where his two children died.

He and his wife were then sent to Auschwitz four years later, where she was killed.

Mr Kristal was the sole survivor of his family and, along with his second wife and son, emigrated in 1950 to Israel.