Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s ...

Marian Turski, the Polish-Jewish historian, journalist, advocate of Polish-Jewish dialogue and a former prisoner of the World ...

Recent documents released by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) have suggested a Polish prisoner of war in Auschwitz happily did the dirty work of the camp’s guards. It is the latest worrying ...

Mr Turski survived the Lodz Ghetto, extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and two death marches as a teenager.

Many in Poland interpreted his words as a critique of the right-wing government in power at the time. However, those on the political right criticized him for using the Auschwitz anniversary to ...

“Kapos were not good or bad – that is a very simple way of explaining functionary prisoners,” says the historian Alina Nowobilska, who researches Polish prisoners at Auschwitz. “Kapos ...

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Many in Poland interpreted his words as a critique of the right-wing government in power at the time. Some who felt targeted criticized him for using the Auschwitz anniversary to comment on the ...

WARSAW, Poland — Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and co-founded Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum, died on Tuesday. He was 98.