Anatoly Shapiro
| Anatoly Pavlovich Shapiro | |
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| Born |
18 January 1913 Konstantinograd, Ukraine |
| Died | 8 October 2005 (aged 92) New York, United States |
| Allegiance |
 Soviet Union
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| Awards |
Hero of Ukraine Order of the Red Star Order of the Patriotic War Order of the Patriotic War |
Anatoly Pavlovich Shapiro (Russian: Анатолий Павлович Шапиро, Ukrainian: Анатолій Павлович Шапіро, 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. 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.
Born to Jewish parents in the town of Konstantinograd, Poltava region which was then part of the Russian Empire, he graduated from the engineering-Pedagogical Institute (High School) in Zaporizhia, with a diploma as engineer-technologist.
Shapiro immediately enlisted for national service into the Red Army in 1935, where after study in Kharkiv, he was appointed to the rank of Lieutenant. After three years national service, he remained as a volunteer in the Red Army, but worked as a civilian engineer in Zaporozhye and Dnipropetrovsk.
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