Holocost Survivor Marian Turski dies at the age of 98

Polish Holocaust, survivor, historian and journalist Marian Turski died at the age of 98.

Born in 1926, Sri Tarsky Lodz Jewish Basti, Extraction Camp Aashwitz-Birkenou and two Death March survived as a teenager.

Later dedicating himself to history and journalism in Poland after the war, he co-established Warsaw’s Landmark Jewish History Museum and became the chairman of the International Oushyvitz Committee.

He attracted international focus on the 75th anniversary of the freedom of Aushwitz in 2020, when he said that the Aushwitz “did not fall from the sky” and warned that it could happen again.

Mr. Tursky was born as Moshe Turboicz and spent most of his childhood time in the Polish city of Lodz.

After the Nazis conquered Poland in 1940, he and his family were taken to the Jewish Jewish settlement established in the city, suffering from illness, starvation and forced labor.

In 1944, his parents and younger brothers were sent to the Aushwitz-Birchenau-where Mr. Tarsky, still a teenager, was to arrive in one of the final transport from Lodz Jews two weeks later.

Mr. Tursky’s father and brother were killed in gas rooms, while his mother was sent to work at Bergon Belsen Camp in Northern Germany.

In January 1945, Sri Tarsky was among 60,000 prisoners, due to his advanced as Soviet soldiers, who were forced to move west by the Nazis, known as the death march.

He first marched for the concentration Camp Buchanwald and later Terrazine, where he was freed from tiredness and typhus to death.

He said that it was as if he had a forgetting disease after leaving the Aushwitz, where he did not return for 20 years.

“I can never forget that I was in Aushwitz, because I have a number tattoo on my arm and I see it every day,” that Told Polish outlet Onette.

“However, after the war, I was hit by Mensia … I remembered the personal episode completely: reaching the camp, some other things, some stories from the death march. Everything else was blurred, however.”

He rejected a proposal to migrate to the west after the war, instead returned home in the hope of building a socialist Poland.

Mr. Tarsky studied history at Vrocla University, during which he took journalism and worked in political communication.

In 1958, he became the editor of the history section of the magazine Politika, from where he became an influential journalist and historian.

Shri Tursky attracted international attention to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Aushwitz in 2020, stating that the Aushwitz “did not fall from the sky”.

It “approached with small steps until what happened here,” he said.

He said that the eleventh command of the Bible “you will not be indifferent”.

“Because if you are indifferent, before you know it, another Aushwitz will come out of blue for you or your descendants,” he warned.

He was one of the remaining people Talked again on the 80th anniversary in January.

He warned the world leaders gathered by the camps of the camp that “We could inspect a significant rise of antisemitism in today’s world, and yet it was properly antisemitism that caused Holocost”.

Poland chief Rabbi, Michael Shudrich said that the Jewish community would miss Mr. Tarsky a lot.

“Marian was our teacher, he was our moral voice and patron.

“He was immersed in Jewish knowledge and was used to guide us how to face today’s problems. We are so blessed that we had a Marion with us for so many years.”

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Mr. Tarski’s words “an motto for us” became “an motto”.

He wrote on X: “11th command for these difficult times.”

Politika magazine heard Mr. Tarsky “an extraordinary man, a witness of ages, our friend” “all over the world”.