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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Mortal Storm. Frank Borzage. One character is sent to a concentration camp and dies there, while his family is trying to leave Nazi Germany. 1940. United States. The Great Dictator. Charlie Chaplin. A condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis.
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.
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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. Although most of the prisoners had been forced onto a death ...