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

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.

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.