Oldest Auschwitz survivor Antoni Dobrowolski dead at 108

WARSAW, Poland -- The oldest known survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp -- a teacher who gave lessons in defiance of his native Poland's Nazi occupiers -- has died at the age of 108, an official said Monday.

Antoni Dobrowolski died Sunday in the northwestern Polish town of Debno, according to Jaroslaw Mensfelt, a spokesman at the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum.

"Auschwitz was worse than Dante's hell," he recalled in a video made when he was 103.

After the war, he worked as a Polish-language teacher and as a principal. -- AP