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Anatoliy Shapiro
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Anatoliy Pavlovych Shapiro (Ukrainian: Анатолій Павлович Шапіро, Russian: Анатолий Павлович Шапиро; 18 January 1913 – 8 October 2005), was a Ukrainian-born Jewish soldier of the Army of the Soviet Union, who led the first elements of the advancing army into the Nazi-developed Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, during the latter stages of World War II.[2] He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star; two Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, for the Liberation of Kraków; the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, and numerous other medals.[3]
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Born | (1913-01-18)18 January 1913 Kostyantynohrad (now Krasnohrad), Ukraine |
Died | 8 October 2005(2005-10-08) (aged 92) New York, United States |
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Awards | Hero of Ukraine[1] Order of the Red Star Order of the Patriotic War Order of the Patriotic War |
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