David Dushman, the last surviving Soviet soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, has died.
The Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria said Sunday that Dushman had died at a hospital in Munich, Germany on Saturday.
As a young Red Army soldier, Dushman flattened the forbidding electric fence around the notorious Nazi death camp with his T-34 tank on Jan. 27, 1945.He acknowledged that he and his comrades didn’t immediately realize the magnitude of what had happened in Auschwitz. More than a million people, most of them Jews deported there from all over Europe, were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1940 and 1945.
His father — a former military doctor— was meanwhile imprisoned and later died in a Soviet punishment camp after falling victim to one of Josef Stalin’s purges.
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