The coronavirus pandemic is the most challenging time a majority of Australians have faced, but not so for Adelaide's Joachim Hirschfeld, who turns 100 today.
With four children, seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren spread across Australia and the world, the party would have doubled as a family reunion.
"We thought 'we've got to do something. We can't just let him think that we don't care'," Mrs Kowalski said.
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