Then I understood that this is for life. Marian Turski on selection in the Auschwitz extermination camp

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Published on Jun 25, 2020

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Marian Turski was born in 1926 in Druskininkai as Moshe Turbowicz. According to Jewish tradition, the first child of Rachel and Eliasz was born in his mother's family home. Marian Turski's father identified with Zionist circles - and he tried to transplant such political beliefs to his firstborn son. In Łódź, the Turbowicz family lived first on Szkolna Street, and then on Sterlinga Street. He attended the First Jewish Gymnasium. The outbreak of World War II found the Turbowicz family in Łódź. At first, they considered escaping to the east, to his father's family in Kleck. In February 1940, a decree was announced to establish a ghetto in Łódź. Thanks to his father's connections, the Turbowicz family rented a room from a vegetable merchant in a building on Kościelna Street. The ghetto was closed in April 1940. In the ghetto, Marian Turski's father was given a job as manager of a coal yard. Marian Turski joins the underground organization Lewica Związkowa and begins to be increasingly influenced by communist ideas. Marian Turski's parents and brother are taken out of the ghetto on a transport to the Auschwitz extermination camp. He himself, two weeks later, in August 1944, volunteers for the last transport - the management of the Lewica Związkowa organization states that there is a better chance of survival in the camp than during the potential liquidation of the ghetto. He is registered under the number B9408 as Maks Balsam. He remains in the Brzezinka camp for a few weeks; he works at draining the area, drainage and roadworks. He ends up on a transport in Szonowice Dziedzice, to clean up the oil refinery in Czechowice-Dziedzice. He takes part in the death march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, and then to the Theresienstadt camp, where he is liberated by American troops. Since 1958, he has been the head of the historical section in the weekly "Polityka". In 1965 he participated in the march against racial segregation from Selma to Montgomery in the USA. After the events of March 1968, his critical attitude towards the communist system began. In 1985, a congress of members of the Left Union organization took place, then Marian Turski visited Israel for the first time. Together with Arnold Mostowicz, he founded the Association of Jewish Veterans. Marian Turski was a member of the Presidential Council for Polish-Jewish Relations under President Lech Wałęsa, chairman of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute, member of the Auschwitz Council under Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek. Since 2009, he has chaired the Council of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Discover the POLIN Museum's oral history collection: https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/historia-mow... Interview: Józef Markiewicz Photos: Piotr Boruszkowski Editing: Piotr Boruszkowski Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGH_... Visit the Virtual Shtetl: https://sztetl.org.pl/ Join the community Facebook: / virtualshtetl Other POLIN Museum channels: POLIN: / mhzp2013 Polish Righteous: / polscysp. . Write to us: [email protected]

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