A survivor of Nazi concentration camps died in a Russian bombing in Kharkiv. The news was given by the Foundation of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps. “Our friend Boris Romanchenko, a survivor of the concentration camps of Buchenwald, Peenemunde, Dora and Bergen-Belsen, died last Friday in an attack on his apartment building in Kharkiv. We are deeply shocked, “wrote the foundation on Twitter.
The multi-storey building in which 96-year-old Romanchenko lived was hit by a bullet. “Romanchenko had devoted himself intensely to remembering the crimes of National Socialism and was vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee,” recalls the foundation. “The new fascists continue Hitler’s work”, writes the mayor of Lviv on his Telegram channel, Andrij Sadovyj.
“Romanchenko testified every day to the strength of life against the horror of totalitarianism, but he was murdered in his home by a Putin bomb”, comments the deputy pd in a tweet Andrea Romano.