Anatoly Shapiro

Ukrainian soldier

Anatoliy Pavlovych Shapiro (Ukrainian: ???????? ???????? ??????, Russian: ???????? ???????? ??????; 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.