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Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor and co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish museum, dies at 98

JL;DR SUMMARY Marian Turski, a prominent Polish journalist, historian, and Holocaust survivor, passed away at 98. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryAuschwitzHolocaustHuman RightsPolandHistorianPolin MuseumCommunismMarian Turski

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Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Marian Turski, a Polish-born survivor of Auschwitz who helped found the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, has died."
Lodz, Łódź, Poland
"As a teenager he and his family were confined to the Lodz ghetto from 1940 to 1944, when he was deported to Auschwitz."
United States
"In 1964 and 1965, he visited the United States on a State Department scholarship."

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