Mr. Turski, a Polish journalist who survived Auschwitz as a teenager, urged the world not to be indifferent to the persecution of minorities.

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 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.