Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw's landmark Jewish history museum, has died.

Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, who became a journalist in Poland and headed an international committee of Auschwitz survivors, has died at the age of 98, said the Polish weekly magazine Polityka, where he worked as a columnist.

World leaders rubbed shoulders with 56 survivors of Hitler's death camp as they marked 80 years since its liberation.

On January 27, 1945, about 7,000 Jewish prisoners were freed from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. That number includes Michael Bornstein. He was just 4 years old at the time. Now, he’s an 84-year-old father and grandfather living in New Jersey.

Marian Turski, the Polish-Jewish historian, journalist, advocate of Polish-Jewish dialogue and a former prisoner of the World War Two Nazi-German death camp Auschwitz, has died at the age of 98.

Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, who became a journalist in Poland and headed an international committee of Auschwitz survivors, has died at the age of 98, said the Polish weekly magazine Polityka, where he worked as a columnist.

The 98-year-old president of the International Auschwitz Committee, Marian Turski, is dead. The Holocaust survivor died on Tuesday in Warsaw, the committee - an association of Auschwitz survivors and their organizations from 19 countries - announced in a statement.

The International Auschwitz Committee president and Holocaust survivor Marian Turski has died aged 98, a Polish weekly magazine he worked for said on Tuesday. "Marian Turski has died.