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Red Army soldier, Olympic fencing coach. David Aleksandrovich Dushman (Russian: Давид Александрович Душман; 1 April 1923 – 4 June 2021) was a Jewish-Soviet Red Army soldier and a fencing trainer of the Soviet Olympic team. [1] Dushman assisted in the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in occupied ...
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945". Medal of Zhukov. Ivan Stepanovich Martynushkin (Russian: Иван Степанович Мартынушкин; born. ) 18 January 1924) is a Russian World War II veteran and the last surviving liberator of the Auschwitz concentration camp, after the death of David ...
He was deported to Auschwitz in June 1943 with his mother, who perished in the camp. [4] He stayed in Auschwitz until its evacuation in January 1945, after which he still survived the death march from Auschwitz to Loslau [ 5 ] , then loaded onto freight trains and transported to Gross-Rosen concentration camp and Buchenwald concentration camp ...
His jacket sparkling with war medals, 96-year old David Dushman holds back the tears as he remembers the eyes of emaciated prisoners at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz which he helped liberate 75 ...
František Getreuer (1906–1945), Czech swimmer and Olympic water polo player, killed in Dachau concentration camp. Hugo Gryn (25 June 1930 – 18 August 1996), senior rabbi, London. Adélaïde Hautval (1 January 1906 – 17 October 1988), French psychiatrist who refused to cooperate with medical experimentation at Auschwitz.
Mel Mermelstein. Melvin Mermelstein (born Moric Mermelstein; September 25, 1926 – January 28, 2022) was a Czechoslovak-born American Holocaust survivor and autobiographer. A Jew, he was the sole survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz concentration camp. He is best known for his litigation with the Institute for Historical Review ...
Mel Mermelstein, Auschwitz survivor who took on Holocaust deniers and won, dies at 95 February 2, 2022 at 3:21 PM Mel Mermelstein at his Huntington Beach Holocaust museum in 1999.
Prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp after their liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz—a Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in occupied Poland where more than a million people were murdered as part of the Nazis' "Final Solution" to the Jewish question—was liberated by the Soviet Red Army during the Vistula–Oder Offensive.