Marian Turski of Auschwitz concentration camp warns of danger, dies in 98

Warsaw, Poland - Holocaust survivor Marian Turski died Tuesday as a journalist and historian in post-war Poland and co-founded the Jewish History Museum in Warsaw, where he died Tuesday. He is 98 years old.

The Polyn Museum in Polish Jewish history declared his death, calling him a person with special moral and intellectual qualities who always stood by “minorities, excluded, and mistaken.”

"The authority with global importance is an advocate of Polish Jewish understanding, public relations staff, historian. Polish Jewish. The director of the museum Zygmunt StęPiński wrote in a statement: "There would not exist without our museums." ”

Turski survived the Lodz Ghetto, where he and his family were forced to live, in the Nazi German concentration camps Buchenwald and Auschwitz- Birkenau was forced to live, with two death parades and imprisonment, and the camp is located in Poland, where Germany lives. Overall, he lost 39 relatives in the Holocaust.

Unlike many Jewish survivors who left post-war Poland, Tarsky chose to stay. He spent his whole life politically and was a member of the Communist Party.

He was one of the fewer people with the decline in the number of Holocaust survivors and spoke at last month’s commemoration, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp in Auschwitz.

However, it was a stark warning about the dangers of indifference on the anniversary of the anniversary five years ago, which attracted his international attention and enhanced his moral image among his supporters. Tarsky said at the time that the Holocaust did not immediately "fall out of the sky", but as society accepted small acts of discrimination, it eventually led to slums and extermination camps.

He also called on people not to remain indifferent when ethnic minorities are discriminated against, historical distortions, and “any authority violates existing social contracts.”

Many in Poland interpreted his words as criticism of the right-wing government at the time. However, those with political rights criticized him for using the Auschwitz anniversary to comment on the political situation, and some even suggested that Tarsky lacked the moral authority of such warnings, because he belonged to the Polish Communist Party before 1989.

Telsky quoted another survivor, Roman Kent, to describe the eleventh commandment of the Bible: “Although not indifferent.”

Polish conservative President Andrzej Duda paid tribute to Tursky, saying: "He always talked about the need to cultivate a sensitivity to evil. May his memory be honored!"

Turski was born on June 26, 1926, at the time of Mosze Turbowicz, and spent his childhood and teenage years at Lodz, where he attended Hebrew School.

In 1944, his parents and brothers were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, a German Nazi camp, and two weeks later he arrived at one of his last transport.

His father and brother died in gas chambers, while his mother was taken to work at Bergen Belson Camp in northern Germany, while Turski was sent to the roads in the Auschwitz-Birkenau area and then sent to two death parades. He was released by Terezin for exhaustion and typhus.

(In September 1945, he returned to Poland, a staunch Communist Party member who rejected the proposal to go to the West and wanted to help establish a socialist Poland.

At last month’s Auschwitz memorial, he took the stage on stage last time to warn of the dangers of hatred and recalled that the number of murdered people was always much larger than the smaller survivors.

“We have always been a very small minority,” Turski said. “Now there are only a few left.”