Last Updated on: 22nd March 2022, 01:23 pm
Who is Boris Romantschenko? Biography, Wiki
Boris Romanchenko, a Ukrainian who survived the Nazi Holocaust in World War II, was killed in a Russian attack in the eastern city of Kharkiv.
Romanchenko was killed in Russian shelling of his building on Friday, relatives said.
Boris Romantschenko’s Age
His current age was 96 years.
Holocaust Survivor Killed By Russian Bombing
For more than three weeks, Russian forces have been shelling Kharkiv, just 50 km from the border.
At least 500 civilians were killed there, according to Ukrainian officials.
According to the police, one of the victims was identified as a nine-year-old boy.
The Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation was “deeply saddened” by Romantschenko’s death.
The organization, of which Romanchenko was vice-president, announced the news after informing his family and said it “worked intensively to commemorate the Nazi crimes”.
“We are mourning the loss of a close friend. We wish your son and granddaughter, who brought us the sad news, a lot of strength in these difficult times,” adds the foundation statement.
Romanchenko’s death comes more than three weeks after President Vladimir Putin tried to justify his invasion to the Russian people by telling them his aim was “denazification of Ukraine”.
Western leaders denounced the claims, noting that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a Jew.
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Boris Romantschenko Early Life
Mr. Romanchenko was born on January 20, 1926, in Bondari in the northeast of the country.
After the invasion of the Soviet Union, he was arrested by Nazi troops and deported to Germany in 1942, where he was forced to do forced labor, the foundation said.
After a failed attempt to escape in 1943, he was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where around 56,545 people died before it was liberated by the Allies in 1945.
He also spent time in the Mittelbau-Dora satellite camp and in the notorious Bergen Belsen and Peenemünde camps.
In 2012, he returned to Buchenwald to celebrate the 67th anniversary of the camp’s liberation by US troops, where he recited the survivors’ promise to create “a new world of peace and freedom.”
Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazi regime murdered more than six million Jews across Europe.
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