(June 7, 2021 at 5:08 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (This seems too important to bury in the RIP thread)
Last Surviving Liberator Of Auschwitz Dies
Quote:Dushman, a Red Army soldier who later became an international fencer, used his T-34 Soviet tank to mow down the electric fence of Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland on 27 January, 1945, helping to set prisoners in the death camp free.
“We hardly knew anything about Auschwitz,” he said, recounting that day in an interview in 2015 with Sueddeutsche daily. But he saw “skeletons everywhere”.
“They staggered out of the barracks, sat and lay among the dead. Terrible. We threw them all our canned food and immediately went on to hunt down the fascists,” he said.
Boru
My mother's last roommate in the nursing home was a survivor of Warsaw Poland. It was chilling to hear her roommate say, "They treated us like Animals." There are still a few survivors and witnesses left, but for every year that goes by, there will be fewer, then none. It is up to every generation to never let humanity forget that horrible stain on humanity.