By PA Media and Dailymail.com ReporterPublished: 16:29 EDT, 6 June 2021 | Updated: 21:38 EDT, 6 June 2021David Dushman, pictured last January, was the last surviving Allied soldier involved in the liberation of AuschwitzDavid 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. Survivors of Auschwitz leaving the camp at the end of World War II, Poland, February 1945. Along with other heroes of Auschwitz, Dushman has saved many lives, she said.
