Happy Birthday Marian Turski!
FOT. M. JAŹWIECKI / MUZEUM HISTORII ŻYDÓW POLSKICH
Marian Turski is without a doubt an institution—a person who devoted his whole life to history, sharing his expertise and reflection with others. His work as an editor and head of the history section of the "Polityka" weekly, spanning over decades, is the fruit of this passion. Its material outcome is POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, of which Marian Turski is a co-founder, ardent ambassador and, since 2009, Chairman of the POLIN Museum Council.
POLIN Museum’s success is a crowning moment in Marian Turski’s rich biography, marked by the imprisonment in the Łódź ghetto, and in Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps, and boasting decades-long work as a historian, head of "Polityka" weekly’s history section, initiator of an annual competition for the best book on history, laureate of numerous awards and medals, including the Order of Polonia Restituta, the German Grand Cross of Merit and the French Order of the Legion of Honour.