The Ukrainian veteran David Dushman mourns during a memorial service of Ukraine on 05.08.2015 at the Soviet memorial on the Stra��e des 17.
Juni in Berlin , Germany during a memorial stone with a Russian tank . Throughout Europe, the 70th anniversary BERLIN (AP) - David Dushman, the last surviving Soviet soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, has died.
He was 98.The Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria said Sunday that Dushman had died at a Munich hospital on Saturday."Every witness to history who passes on is a loss, but saying farewell to David Dushman is particularly painful," said Charlotte Knobloch, a former head of Germany’s Central Council of Jews.