Turski became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw's landmark Jewish history museum.

Marian was our teacher, he was our moral voice and mentor," Poland's chief rabbi said. "He was steeped in Jewish wisdom and used it to guide us on how to face today’s problems."

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.