On the 27th January 1945
Soviet-Jewish soldier David Dushman liberated Auschwitz concentration camp by driving his T-35 Soviet tank through the barbed wire electric fence of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in occupied Poland, thereby initiating the liberation (1/3)
Soviet-Jewish soldier David Dushman liberated Auschwitz concentration camp by driving his T-35 Soviet tank through the barbed wire electric fence of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in occupied Poland, thereby initiating the liberation (1/3)
of the camp by allowing Red Army ground troops in the 322nd Rifle Division to enter the camp. "Skeletons everywhere, they stumbled out of the barracks and lay among the dead.
Terrible. We threw them all of our canned food and immediately drove on, to hunt fascists," (2/3)
Terrible. We threw them all of our canned food and immediately drove on, to hunt fascists," (2/3)
After the war he went on to become an Olympic fencer. He passed away at age 98 on
June 4th, 2021. (3/3) #HolocaustMemorialDay
June 4th, 2021. (3/3) #HolocaustMemorialDay
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