David Dushman was a Soviet veteran of World War II who was one of the last living soldiers who liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp.Dushman was a soldier in the Soviet Union’s Red Army during World War II.
On January 27, 1945, as Auschwitz was liberated form the Nazis, Dushman drove a tank through the death camp’s electric fence, knocking it down and allowing ground troops to enter the compound and liberate its prisoners.
Dushman is believed to be the last or second to last of the liberators of Auschwitz to die.After the war, Dushman studied medicine, and he also turned to his old love of fencing.
He became the coach of the national Soviet women’s fencing team for more than 30 years, coaching them to gold at the 1973 Munich Olympics..
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