Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, chair of the International Auschwitz Committee, has died at the age of 98, the Polish weekly Polityka, for which he worked, announced on Tuesday.
A Pole of Jewish faith, Turski was born in 1926 under the name Moshe Turbowicz. In 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz, Nazi Germany's largest extermination camp.
In January 1945, when Soviet troops advanced on Auschwitz, which they later liberated, he was one of 60,000 emaciated prisoners forced by the SS to march west in what became known as the ‘Death March.’
A historian and journalist, Marian Turski was one of four Auschwitz survivors who spoke last month to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp.
He denounced the "huge increase" in anti-Semitism and called for courage to resist negationists and supporters of conspiracy theories.
