David Dushman was a Soviet veteran of World War II who was one of the last living soldiers who liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp.Dushman was a soldier in the Soviet Union’s Red Army during World War II. On January 27, 1945, as Auschwitz was liberated form the Nazis, Dushman drove a tank through the death camp’s electric fence, knocking it down and allowing ground troops to enter the compound and liberate its prisoners.