Ukraine: Boris Romantschenko, survivor of the Nazi camps, killed by a Russian strike

Boris Romantschenko had survived the Buchenwald Nazi camp.

He was killed in his home in Kharkiv on March 18, 2022. He was 96 years old.

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Boris Romantschenko lost his life on Friday March 18, 2022 in a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, the city in northeastern Ukraine besieged since the start of the war.

Aged 96, he was sick and lived alone on the 8th floor of his building.

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He had survived the Second World War and the hell of the Nazi camps.

He was finally killed in a Russian strike, on the 22nd day of the military operation launched by Russia in Ukraine.

Boris Romantschenko was 16 in 1942 when he was deported to Germany as a forced laborer.

After an attempted escape, he was imprisoned in the Buchenwald camp in central Germany.

At the end of the war, he was drafted for several years by the Soviet army stationed in East Germany, before returning to Ukraine.

Boris Romantschenko survived the concentration camps #Buchenwald, #Peenemünde, #Dora and #BergenBelsen.

Now he has been killed by a bullet that hit his house in #Charkiv, #Ukraine.

He was 96 years old.

We are stunned.

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— Stift.

Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora (@Buchenwald_Dora) March 21, 2022

Aged 96, he was sick and could no longer leave his building where he lived alone.

His death Friday, after the firing of a Russian missile, sparked an avalanche of reactions.

The indignation is all the greater as Vladimir Putin justified his military intervention in Ukraine by the need, according to him, to "denazify" the country.

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The horrific death of Boris Romantschenko shows that the war in Ukraine is a threat to the survivors of the concentration camps"

, deplores the Buchenwald Memorials Foundation, which has been trying since the beginning of the conflict to send them food and medicine to these survivors. .

It estimates that more than 40,000 survivors of Nazi persecution currently live in Ukraine.

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