BERLIN — David Dushman, who as a soldier for the Soviet Union drove his tank through the electric fence surrounding the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, and is believed to have been the last surviving liberator of the camp, died in Munich on Saturday. He was 98.
Mr. Dushman’s death was confirmed in a statement on Sunday by the Munich Jewish community organization. No cause of death was given.
“Every witness to history who leaves us is a loss, but parting with David Dushman is particularly painful,” Charlotte Knobloch, president of the organization, said in the statement.