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Marian Turski (born in 1926) lived with his family in Sterlinga Street in Łódź
before the war. In 1940, forced to move to the ghetto, he lived in Kościel-
na Street. His father managed a coal yard. After completing his education
at school and passing a junior certificate exam, Marian started working
in a butcher’s shop and then a carpentry department. In August 1944, he
was deported with his family to Auschwitz where his father and brother died.
His mother was taken to Bergen-Belsen and survived the war. After the death
march, Marian was sent to Buchenwald and Theresienstadt, where he lived
to see liberation. After the war, he studied in Wrocław, then lived in Warsaw.
Since 1958, he has been in charge of the historical department of the weekly
magazine, “Polityka”. He was one of the initiators of the construction of the
Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
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