Boris Romanchenko, 96, survived four Nazi concentration camps, but his life was ended on Friday by a Russian attack in Kharkiv, according to the Buchenwald memorial institute.
The institute said in a series of tweets that, according to his granddaughter, Romanchenko was living in an apartment block in Kharkiv that was hit during a Russian attack.
The group said Romanchenko survived the Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during World War II. The institute said it was “stunned” by the news of the death.
Romanchenko worked “intensely in the memory of Nazi crimes and was vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee,” the statement issued.
In 2012, Romanchenko attended an event commemorating the liberation of Buchenwald, where he read an oath dedicated to “creating a new world where peace and freedom reign,” the memorial said.
In 2018, a Kharkiv newspaper reported on his visit to Buchenwald on the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp by US forces, saying: “The event was attended by the last surviving prisoners from Buchenwald from Ukraine and Belarus – Borys Romanchenko from Kharkiv, Oleksandr Bychok from Kiev and Andriy Moiseenko from Minsk.”
Russia denies attacking civilian targets and says its operation is focused on destroying military structures.
Source: CNN Brasil
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