After the war, David Dushman visited schools to tell students about the war and the horrors of the Holocaust. He also regularly dusted off his military medals to participate in veterans gatherings.
David Dushman, the last surviving Soviet soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, has died. He was 98. The Jewish Community of Munich and Upper.
David Dushman, the last surviving Allied soldier involved in the liberation of Auschwitz, has died aged 98.
The Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria said on Sunday that Dushman had died at a Munich hospital on Saturday.
As a young Red Army soldier, Dushman flattened the forbidding fence around the notorious Nazi death camp in Poland with his tank on January 27, 1945.
After the war he helped train the Soviet Union s women s national fencing team and survived the attack on the Munich Olympics.
Later in life, Dushman visited schools to tell students about the war and the horrors of the Holocaust.
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