Antoni Dobrowolski, the oldest known survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, died in Poland on Sunday. He was 108-years-old.

According to The Associated Press, Dobrowolski died Sunday in Debno, Poland Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum spokesperson Jaroslaw Mensfelt said.

In 1939 when Germany invaded Poland in World War II, the Nazi banned schooling beyond four years of elementary education in efforts to rid Poland of intellect as part of the plan to use Polish people as a “slave race.”

Dobrowolski , however, was a teacher part of an underground effort which continued teaching students in Poland against the Nazi’s wishes. But in June 1942, Dobrowolski along with other Poles was caught and arrested by the Gestapo and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

“Auschwitz was worse than Dante’s hell,” Dobrowolski, then aged 103, said in a video, The AP reported.

Dobrowolski was eventually moved to the Gross-Rosen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps, where he was liberated in 1945.

Antoni Dobrowolski moved to Debno, where he will be buried Wednesday, after the war, where he worked as a teacher and principal at an elementary school then a high school.

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