OSWIECIM, Poland – When the Soviet army entered Auschwitz exactly 70 years ago, finding piles of corpses and prisoners close to death, a Russian soldier took a small and hungry 11-year-old girl into his arms and rocked her tenderly, tears coming to his eyes.
That girl, today the 81-year-old Paula Lebovics, doesn’t know who that soldier was, but still feels enormous gratitude to him and the other Soviet soldiers who liberated the camp on Jan. 27, 1945.
To her, it is a shame that Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t be among other European leaders Tuesday on the anniversary of the death camp’s …read more
Source: Macleans
